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On 01/27/2015 11:48 PM, Neil Bothwick wrote: |
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> On Tue, 27 Jan 2015 23:07:15 +0100 (CET), Jan Sever wrote: |
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>> P.S. Btw. poli in politics is from latin word polis = a place, not poly |
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>> = many. But it's a nice parallel. |
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> Yes, and a tic is a nervous twitch, the blood sucking parasite is a tick, |
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> but when did jokes have to be linguistically accurate? |
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Sorry, I didn't mean to spoil the joke, I really enjoyed it, I've not heard |
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such a good joke recently. Thanks for redirecting me to the bugzilla. |
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On 01/28/2015 1:24 AM, Thanasis wrote: |
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> Both a greek words, not latin. |
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> polis = city |
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> poly = many/much |
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Thanks for correcting, I don't know why I had fixed in mind that polis is from |
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latin and poly from greek. But I thought polis should be a city and wondered |
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why it wasn't (in latin). |
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Jan Sever |
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