From Newsgroup: alt.arts.poetry.comments
doctor@doctor.nl2k.ab.ca (The Doctor) wrote in news:115sa6n$l2m$
12@gallifrey.nk.ca:
In article <115s9ve$5iet$2@dont-email.me>,
The True Doctor <agamemnon@hello.to.NO_SPAM> wrote:
On 16/08/2026 13:17, The Doctor wrote:
In article <115s99c$5ako$1@dont-email.me>,
The True Doctor <agamemnon@hello.to.NO_SPAM> wrote:
On 16/08/2026 12:58, The True Melissa wrote:
The Doctor wrote in article <115s7lg$2et4$11@gallifrey.nk.ca>:
In English, "drake" meaing "male duck" comes from proto-Germanic >>>>>>> anadreko, meaning something like "duck leader." English "drake"
as in "dragon" comes from the Old English draca, and before that
from Latin draco, itself from the Greek drakon.
Meanwhile, back in German, a male duck is an Enterich and a
dragon (or a toy kite) is a Drache. The Internet says that
there's a dialectical use of "Drache" for a male duck in central >>>>>>> Germany, and this is thought to be a parallel form to the
English word.
They're not from the same origin.
Linguist I see.
A lot of people think an English degree doesn't really teach much
of anything. They're wrong. :-)
J K Rowling didn't need an English degree to write Harry Potter.
She had a classics degree. You and Emma Watson both went up the
wrong path if you wanted to become writers.
Language has always been one of my great passions. Too bad it's
almost impossible to make a living from that. Editing and
It's because of all of those immigrants than can speak better
English than we do. Yads is obviously not one of of them though.
tutoring are okay applications, though, so I get along.
At least it wasn't psychology and sociology which have now been as
completely discredited as scientology as having no real scientific
basis of foundation whatsoever, or so says Sabine Hossenfelder who
is a theoretical physicist, in other words a real scientist.
Scientology is a cult.
So are psychology, sociology, and psychiatry.
Your opinion.
Mind is depends on the basis.
Could you try that in English, Binky?
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lights on in a dead group by reposting from archives. I soon realized
that he was just endlessly reposting his own stuff, that he had killed
the group by flooding it, and that most of the people he called
"trolls" were actually the members of the group.
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to him. It's exhausting and pointless." - Little Willie Douchebag gets
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