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Questions and Answers - Part 3

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12:06 / 10.10.06

2 sessions a week for a year does sound a bit excessive, from my limited knowledge of how it works. as far as I understand it, about six weekly sessions should be enough to address most problems, with follow-ups about every month as required. this might come to about thirty sessions for the year i'd guess (but that's going to be affected by the severity of the problems to begin with no doubt). with prejudice head on, sounds like what you have there is a money grabbing new ager out to get max possible cash out of someone who's probably more than a little vulnerable.

and the rabelais thing, yes, but it's quite possible that it also or previously came to crowley more indirectly than that, through the Hellfire club who'd appropriated rabelais's slogans and through their rep had quite the effect on quasi-masonic institutions and general freethinking types & hedonists thereafter. in fact, i'd nearly be willing to bet that young crowley read about the boozy hi-jinx of the hellfire club in some victorian book of bad tales for boys thing before he got into his middle-ages french poets.

(yes, everyone knows crowley was mad on xmen, the scary bits of book of the law come straight from a late night row between 'dark' phoenix and cyclops... ho ho ho!)

13:46 / 10.10.06

Question- a friend of mine said Bush is quoted as saying that the answer to climate change was to move away from fossil fuels, and that's why he's supporting coal burning power stations. Is that right or did he mean this quote;
"We're spending money on clean coal technology. Do you realize we've got 250 million years of coal?"—Washington, D.C., June 8, 2005

10:25 / 11.10.06

You know that steaming vegetables is better than boiling them, because when you boil them you lose over half the vitamins in them? Presumably that's because the vitamins go into the water, right? So, if that's so, then making soup should be as good for you as steaming veg, because you are ingesting the water the vitamins go into, aren't you?

Or is that not where the vitamins go?

pointless & uncalled for

10:46 / 11.10.06

A portion of the nutrients will end up in the water, a portion will end up being destroyed by the boiling process. This breakdown is far more limited in the steaming process, which also breaks down some of the cellular structure allowing better digestion of the vegetables and easier extraction of the vitamins. Yay.

It's still worth reserving water from steaming to create stock with, particularly if you are then going to create a meat stock.

14:30 / 11.10.06

Cheers Gumbitch

with prejudice head on, sounds like what you have there is a money grabbing new ager out to get max possible cash out of someone who's probably more than a little vulnerable

That's it, there or thereabouts. I have subsequently had a quick scoot about and most acupuncture websites seem to be talking about a typical course of treatment being 6-8 sessions, so someone is taking the piss.

MattShepherd: I WEDDED KALI!

19:42 / 11.10.06

It's still worth reserving water from steaming to create stock with, particularly if you are then going to create a meat stock.

I use it to water my plants. That, and my fish tank cleaning water. They lurve it.

07:45 / 16.10.06

At circa this part in the feminism thread, two people had misreadings (cage/lap-dancing, tourism/terrorism), which reminded me of a phenomenon, where you hear a word, sentence etc, and when you tell it to someone else, it turns into something slightly/completely different.

We have a game here, where people sit in a circle, someone starts with a sentence, whispers it into the ear of the person next to hir, who whispers it to the next one, and after full circle, all the mishearings get revealed.

It´s called "stille Post" [silent post]. Is there a word or phrase in English for that phenomenon apart from mishearing?

pointless & uncalled for

07:51 / 16.10.06

It's called Chinese Whispers.

08:18 / 16.10.06

Aha, thank you!. My dictionary refused to translate.

Ex

13:28 / 17.10.06

This is a bit random and may not have an answer.
A customer in my library uses my name every time he speaks to me. We just clocked up six in a row in a short exchange. Is he just being scrupulously polite?

I'm not usually so cynical, but it felt a bit as though he were employing some 'Eight Top Tips to Make Friends and Influence Librarians' - anyone heard of anything that might fit the bill? It reminded me of Jon Ronson's description of mis-applied NLP training.

Or tell me to stop being so damnably frosty and English and be nice back at the little tyke.

13:58 / 17.10.06

People (like me) who are terrible at remembering names are often advised to use a person’s name as often as possible after being introduced to them. It might have something to do with that, Ex.

Ex

15:44 / 17.10.06

Aha! That may well be it. Thanks.
Poor chap. I wouldn't mind if he entirely forgot my name.

19:55 / 18.10.06

As we all know, deep inside the vatican people are busy keeping latin alive by translating new words into latin, i.e. making up new latin words for stuff like cell phone, internet, car, etc.

As I read today in the miserable thread, people use mea culpa for my fault. So what is the translation for my bad?

And are there more latin translations for such colloquial new terms (is there a latin word for pimping, high five, dude, etc.)?

22:25 / 18.10.06

'My Own Private Idaho', the film, was about two gay guys IIRC. By chance I discovered that sodomy is illegal in Idaho "all sexes; felony punishable by imprisonment for 5 years to life".
Not having seen it, I wonder is that mentioned in the film? Bit ironic really, like ten thousand spoons.

All Acting Regiment

07:23 / 19.10.06

Surely Cell Phone is Latin already, unless Greek?

pointless & uncalled for

07:40 / 19.10.06

Not quite.

My latin is mostly guesswork but phone itself is just sound and therefore cell phone would imply that you are sound in cells.

To take the full form cellular telephone, cellular is an anglicisation and to revert to latin form you would need cellularis.

Ergo, telephone cellularis is my best guess but I will bow to the wisom of anyone who has actually studied Latin because I think that the modern usuage of cell doesn't translate backwards all that well.

ONLY NICE THINGS

09:08 / 19.10.06

Phone is Greek, as is telos. As it happens, however, the Vatican translation for "telephone" is "telephonium". Cellula is a late invention meaning small room. A cellular phone is called a cellular phone because it uses a network of overlapping "small rooms" of shortwave transmission.

However. Yes, there is almost certainly a Latin term for "mobile phone" used by the Vatican. It will be in Lexicon Recentis Latinitas, a Vatican publication. I imagine it will either be telephonium portabile or telephonium cellulare, but those are just guesses.

Since "pimping" doesn't crop up in Vatican announcements very much, it is unlikely to have an official Vatican Latin equivalent. Besides, Latin already has concepts of managing prostitutes and decorating - why would it need a term that combines the two just because English does? See also high-fiving and and calling people dude.

If you put aside the need for literal correspondence, you've pretty much answered your own question, Mist. "Mea culpa" is a piece of liturgical Latin - it's from the Latin Mass, not from Roman speech or writing. To communicate taking responsibility for something, I'd probably just say "ignosce".

Latin's a very efficient language.

12:52 / 19.10.06

Haus I thought ignosce was more like pardon or excuse? For use if you bump into someone?

Yeah sorry if I wasn't clear that mea culpa is lifted from the Catholic tradition. The wiki seems to think it is the equiv of 'my bad' and I took it to mean 'my fault' with a nuance of guilt derived responsibility not just a social acknowledgment of inconveniencing someone else.

from the Confiteor:
mea maxima culpa = my most grievous fault

I picked it up from a rather cheesy but lovely Heath Ledger moment and after researching it a bit found it suited my need to express responsibility when I felt guilty.
The striking of the chest/heart when saying it seems to fit rather well.

Though I'm currently wondering how disrespectful it might be for me to be retooling it for my own purposes.

ONLY NICE THINGS

13:06 / 19.10.06

Ignoscere means "forgive", xk - it's what you ask someone to do if you bump into them, and it's what you ask God to do with your sins. I would imagine a Roman using the imperative because the interlocutor will already have formed an idea as to whether or not whatever he or she had done was his or her fault, so the acknowledgement was a redundant step. As I say, a very efficient language.

If it helps, the bit in the confiteor is ablative, whereas your use is going to be nominative. And mea culpa (nominative) is a pretty common formulation for "my bad" these days, isn't it? That is to say, I imagine the Roman Catholic church will cope with you using it.

20:51 / 19.10.06

How do (uk) women's clothing sizes equate to those for men?

What size would be suitable for a man with a 34" waist and a 32" inch leg?

Whisky Priestess

21:03 / 19.10.06

Size 16 or so? Or am I massively over/underestimating?

21:14 / 19.10.06

would it be easier to work from american sizes for women?
i think a 16 here would be a US 12... would that fit the size you are looking for?

21:16 / 19.10.06

I live in the uk, so uk sizes will be more useful to me really...

21:27 / 19.10.06

oh right.
no idea why i thought you were american.
maybe it was a clever compliment of some kind.
like, uh... i'll get back to you as soon as i figure out how.

10:19 / 20.10.06

This might be useful, .trampetunia.

It looks like a 34" waist would be a size 16 (UK).

12:11 / 21.10.06

If the word "metemtaph" existed, what would it mean?

14:08 / 21.10.06

i want to put symbols at the top righthand corner of certain words for footnote purposes in microsoft word 2003, how do i go about doing this?

14:20 / 21.10.06

Alex- Metemtaph sounds like it should be a corruption of;

'Metempsychosis a philosophical term in the Greek language referring to the belief of transmigration of the soul, especially its reincarnation after death.'
..and..
Cenotaph 'a tomb or a monument erected in honor of a person or group of persons whose remains are elsewhere. It can also be the initial tomb for a person that has since been interred elsewhere. The word derives from the Greek words kenos, one meaning being "empty" and taphos, "tomb".'

So it would be the initial tomb of a person who'd reincarnated.

Phex: Dorset Doom

14:31 / 21.10.06

Paw- crtl-alt-F should make footnotes in Word. They're numbered by default so if you want something a bit different (like Ankhs- Ankhs are awesome) you can go to Insert>Reference>Footnote and pick custom symbols. Like Ankhs. Which are awesome.

14:05 / 24.10.06

What is a longitudinal study?

14:12 / 24.10.06

A longitudinal study tracks developments over time.

14:21 / 24.10.06

Thanks, however I am forbidden to cite Wikipedia as a source of knowledge. Has this sentence over shot the mark?

A Longitudinal study is a survey which monitors changes in a selection of a population over an extended period of time.

14:22 / 24.10.06

thanks Haus for unraveling the latin for me.

Metemtaph:So it would be the initial tomb of a person who'd reincarnated.
Quantum, that's lovely.

As a side note in the US women's sizes do reflect actual measurements in inches.
A 14 is a 34 inch waist (subtract/add 20 to get the size/waist) so a 5 is a 25 inch waist.

ONLY NICE THINGS

14:43 / 24.10.06

Metemtaph. OK, let's think it through. taphos means tomb. The "em" in "metempsychosis" is what happens to the preposition εν before a pi in a compound word - so it means "in". "Met" is "meta" - after or with.

The empty part - kenos - is lost, as is empsychousthai - to provide the animating spirit. What you're left with is "With" or "after", "in" and "tomb". So, perhaps where you bury somebody after they have risen from the grave the first time...

Whisky Priestess

09:35 / 25.10.06

I like both definitions of metemtaph, but especially Haus's - excellent prospects for use in zombie or vampire movies. What a great word! If only it existed ...

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