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"exit" comes is the third-person singular present form of the Latin verb "exire," mean "he/she leaves" and so is widely used as stage direction and so became the familiar English word. "Egress" comes from the Latin egressus, the past participle of egredi, meaning “to step out.”

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Law enforcement officers should never cover their faces when making arrests or conceal their identities (unless they are working undercover). They work for us. We have a right to know who they are. These face coverings are frightening & unAmerican, as though they're ashamed of what they're doing.

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Sawe mencioun of "The Phoenician Scheme" and Ich was lyke "you mean the alphabet"?

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🧵 Ppl often use the terms sex & gender interchangeably. Sex is a biological term & refers to a spectrum [not a binary, as journos insist]. Gender is usually cultural & about traits typically associated with one’s sex. Think 16th C codpieces. If you identified as a posh man you wore one. [1]

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Chaucer hath spoken- learn your grammar!

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Non mihi prima haec rodeo

submitted 20 days ago • 8 comments

Well, yeah-now. But yesterday it was my classroom and I will bet our conversation was more interesting (topic- foods & Dr. Seuss) Lardum was mentioned a lot (bacon)

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Wisdom for the ages

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This

submitted 43 days ago • 907 comments

Autism isn’t an epidemic. It's not a disease. It’s a natural variation in how people think…which, frankly, is a relief in a world where most people don't think at all.

submitted 44 days ago • 430 comments

Blue Origin: Ad astra per pecuniam

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FWIW sonus also gave us the word, person. Latin sonus plus the prefix per (through) - A Latin persona was an actor's mask with an open mouth that amplified sound. so persona= mask>character>personality>person

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lots of catitude going on here

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sesquipedalian | long; characterized by the use of long words The Latin ‘sesquipedalis’ = "foot-and-a-half long." Horace advised young poets to use common speech instead of ‘sesquipedalia verba' ("words a-foot-and-a-half long"). It's his version of a ‘20-dollar word.'

submitted 69 days ago • 30 comments

"Quintili Vare legiones redde!"- Augustus said, when questioned by the press

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Who said that? Not in my classroom!

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Palačinky for dinner here, and palačinka 'pancake' is another Czech word with a Latin origin. The word goes back (via Hungarian palacsinta) to Romanian plăcintă 'pie, pastry'. This in turn derives from the Latin for 'cake', placenta.

submitted 90 days ago • 8 comments

Every decent American should be embarrassed and ashamed today.

submitted 94 days ago • 878 comments

Slava Ukraini! 🇺🇦 ✊

submitted 94 days ago • 453 comments

same with "G"- always hard. Nota bene: "C" and "G" were related letters in early Latin- so that names like Gaius (as we know it ) are sometimes spelled Caius and weren't abbreviated with a G, but with a C- ergo C. Iulius Caesar

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Puns about words and bugs are on my top ten list- the Greek roots are bonus

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Older forms of English kept Latin's gender-specific suffixes: tor for men & trix is for women. For example: Male pilots/fighters are aviators/gladiators Female pilot/fighter: aviatrix/gladiatrix. This contrasts with the modern system, where tor is for both men and women, and trix are for kids.

submitted 103 days ago • 1 comment

Every decent human being at the Super Bowl should take a knee during the National Anthem.

submitted 114 days ago • 1731 comments

In a couple of languages I know, the word for 'waste' is derived from the root for 'fall' – for example, Czech odpad, German Abfall, Dutch afval, literally 'off-fall'. I only recently realised that English has an equivalent term, though it's narrowed and shifted in meaning: 'offal'.

submitted 115 days ago • 10 comments

Latina ubique!

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I honestly believe our most powerful position in a toxic time that feeds on cynicism, apathy,& despair is to genuinely care and act for a better world. Cynicism is our enemy. We should check it, incl. on the left. It’s not intellectually superior. It’s the virus they’re trying to infect us with. NO

submitted 122 days ago • 4324 comments

Was tryinge to thynke of the Latin worde for goose but Ich koude not fynde the anser

submitted 125 days ago • 8 comments

What we've seen from the White House today is not what responsible government looks like. Their actions have caused unnecessary confusion and instability across our state. My full statement on the Trump-Vance Administration's freeze on federal funding:

submitted 125 days ago • 22 comments

“Oblivion” and "oblivious" are from the Latin oblivio, meaning “forgetfulness.” The root of oblivio may be lēvis “smooth,” so with the prefix ob-, you get “to smooth over,” perhaps suggesting a wiping away. It’s that blank smoothness that may give us the sense of “oblivion” as empty nothingness.

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