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[dreamer_easy]

Pimping my little greennotebook, now ready for public consumption. When I come across a fresh word, one I didn't know before, I make a note of it and look it up - might as well do it in LJ! Plus there's some general English and linguistic stuph.

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[drox.livejournal.com]

Love the greennotebook! But apparently I can't reply there, so I'm doing it here.

...that is, "testified" (literally, "put down")

More linguistic trivia I heard somewhere: "Testified" comes from the Latin, and relates to "testicles". Apparently the Romans, when taking a solemn vow, wouldn't cross their heart, but rather put their hand on *another* body part that was very important to them. So to solemnly promise (to tell the truth, f'rinstance) became known as testifying. Thus we now have words like testament, testimony, etc. in our language. Is that bizarre or what?

[gooofy.livejournal.com]

"chapter" and "head". Not as cool but neat because they don't sound anything alike. "Chapter" was borrowed from French and "head" is Germanic but they both share a common Indo-European root. Also "thyroid" and "forest", and "cheetah" and "poem."

[greennotebook.livejournal.com]

apparently I can't reply there

Crap. *fixes that*

[alryssa.livejournal.com]

Huzzah!

Green

[(Anonymous)]

Damn, damn, damn. Alden's pulled a similar trick. There are only so many LJs I can read before losing all sense of identity. And I already feel like a stalker as it is.

But this one looks interesting. If I can fit it in, I will.

(BTW, I've taken the liberty of mentioning your Daemon's/Theban alphabet observation on RADWM. Is that ok?)

Speaking of self-pimping... Usenet poster papped: http://muse.cream.org/bemli/spumli/

Not that I expect people are desperate to see pictures of me.

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MHW

Re: Green

[greennotebook.livejournal.com]

A connection failure has occurred.

Time you got yourself a free LJ! Makes reading all those journals much easier.