STEWART COPELAND

by **TOWOS** on 03 Sep 2008 23:11

[quote="Madgrad"]
Yeah, sucka! Get your Mr. T facts straight! :lol:

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Yo, why d'ya think I work 13 hrs a day?

by **TheEqualizer** on 03 Sep 2008 23:15

[quote="smax"]hmmm, not sure about that, my freind, not sho' at all...

may i respectfully request that we dispose of the , IMHO, the uninspiring suffix "let" from each word and examine what is left.

i think you must surely agree that saying "PAMPH" is a vastly more pleasurable exprience than the rather commonplace "Leaf".

pamph

pamph[/quote]

Hmmm.

Pamph

Pamph

Leaf

Leaf

I don't know Smax. Maybe its an acquired taste. Maybe it'll grow on you. Within a week, I'm betting you'll be enjoying the subtle charm of "leaflet."

*leaflet*

by **smax** on 03 Sep 2008 23:18

pamph

by **TheEqualizer** on 03 Sep 2008 23:22

Its hard to argue against the lyrical beauty of "pamphlet"

I'll just go back to saying "shhhhedule" for awhile.

"shhhhhedule"

by **TheEqualizer** on 03 Sep 2008 23:31

An interesting thing I found regarding the etymology of the word "pamphlet":

"The word pamphlet for a small work (opuscule) issued by itself without covers came into Middle English ca 1387 as pamphilet or panflet, generalized from a twelfth-century amatory comic poem with a satiric flavor, Pamphilus, seu de Amore ("Pamphilus: or, Concerning Love"), written in Latin.[2] Pamphilus's name was derived from Greek, meaning "loved by all". The poem was popular and widely copied and circulated on its own, forming a slim codex."

"Loved by all" - tough to beat that.

However, the word also has a negative connotation in certain countries:

"In German, French, and Italian pamphlet often has negative connotations of slanderous libel or religious propaganda; idiomatic neutral translations of English pamphlet include "Flugblatt" and "Broschüre" in German and "Fascicule" in French. In Russian and Romanian, the word "памфлет" in Russian Cyrillic, "pamflet" in Romanian also normally connotes a work of propaganda or satire, so it is best translated as "brochure" ("брошюра" in Russian, broşură in Romanian)."

"Flugblatt"

:lol:

by **Madgrad** on 03 Sep 2008 23:36

Boys, you have lost it. :wink:

by **smudge** on 03 Sep 2008 23:36

[quote="TheEqualizer"]An interesting thing I found regarding the etymology of the word "pamphlet":

"The word pamphlet for a small work (opuscule) issued by itself without covers came into Middle English ca 1387 as pamphilet or panflet, generalized from a twelfth-century amatory comic poem with a satiric flavor, Pamphilus, seu de Amore ("Pamphilus: or, Concerning Love"), written in Latin.[2] Pamphilus's name was derived from Greek, meaning "loved by all". The poem was popular and widely copied and circulated on its own, forming a slim codex."

"Loved by all" - tough to beat that.

However, the word also has a negative connotation in certain countries:

"In German, French, and Italian pamphlet often has negative connotations of slanderous libel or religious propaganda; idiomatic neutral translations of English pamphlet include "Flugblatt" and "Broschüre" in German and "Fascicule" in French. In Russian and Romanian, the word "???????" in Russian Cyrillic, "pamflet" in Romanian also normally connotes a work of propaganda or satire, so it is best translated as "brochure" ("???????" in Russian, bros¸ura<breve> in Romanian)."

"Flugblatt"

:lol:

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Can we all agree to try and crowbar the word 'flugblatt' into a conversation tomorrow? A word that deserves a new lease of life...

And EQ - that is without doubt the strangest post I've ever read on here. Fabulous. But strange.

(Sorry - don't thing the original cyrillic is showing up in my quote of EQ's post. Hang on. Did I just say that?)

by **smudge** on 03 Sep 2008 23:38

[quote="Madgrad"]Boys, you have lost it. :wink:

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So says the lady with cartoon ementhal cheese in her avatar ;-)

by **conroy** on 03 Sep 2008 23:49

[quote="TheEqualizer"]
"Flugblatt"
[/quote]

I had to read it twice to be sure, but I so wanted that to read "Flagbutt"

by **Madgrad** on 03 Sep 2008 23:55

[quote="smudge"][quote="Madgrad"]Boys, you have lost it. :wink:

[/quote]

So says the lady with cartoon ementhal cheese in her avatar ;-)

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Hey, I resemble that! Watch it! :wink:

by **policerule** on 03 Sep 2008 23:58

[quote="conroy"][quote="TheEqualizer"]
"Flugblatt"
[/quote]

I had to read it twice to be sure, but I so wanted that to read "Flagbutt"[/quote]

Me too! :lol:

T, what spurred this thread in the first place?

I missed something again

by **TheEqualizer** on 04 Sep 2008 00:07

[quote="policerule"][quote="conroy"][quote="TheEqualizer"]
"Flugblatt"
[/quote]

I had to read it twice to be sure, but I so wanted that to read "Flagbutt"[/quote]

Me too! :lol:

T, what spurred this thread in the first place?

I missed something again

[/quote]

You didn't miss anything.

*leaflet*

by **Madgrad** on 04 Sep 2008 00:14

Huh-huh, you said flagbutt! :lol:

That was cool.

by **TOWOS** on 04 Sep 2008 00:21

[quote="policerule"
T, what spurred this thread in the first place?

I missed something again

[/quote]

Yep. I'll email you - the literal discussion is a total threadjack, but I do encourage people to threadjack when I start a thread-

There's a James Joyce in all of us :lol:

by **Divemistress of the Dark** on 04 Sep 2008 05:01

Ha. Here I thought Lil' T had Rickrolled us all...when the truth is much, much worse!

Smudge, you have any vacay photos yet? Have you posted a travelogue anywhere?

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