When we first started collecting conflations two decades ago, it didn’t take us long to realize that idioms and the words of which they are made up are complex things. A word’s effectiveness is clearly bootstrapped to the ways that languages continually evolve through practical use. Like wo...
When we first started collecting conflations two decades ago, it didn’t take us long to realize that idioms and the words of which they are made up are complex things. A word’s effectiveness is clearly bootstrapped to the ways that languages continually evolve through practical use. Like wo...
Buddhaghosa, who did not know the true etymology of this term, is ready as ever with a guess : attano manata, or mentality of one's self, not of another, subjective experience. If I am pained or pleased, that is peculiarly my aft'air (ibid.). Psychologically it is interesting to ...
jig- any of various old rustic dances involving kicking and leaping contra danse,contradance,contredanse,country dancing,country-dance- a type of folk dance in which couples are arranged in sets or face one another in a line ring dance,round dance- a folk dance; dancers form a circle ...
By analyzing the etymology and previous interpretations of susa, Jeong (2006) and Kim (2004) claim that the traditional meaning of susa encompasses both embellishment techniques and persuasive skills. Further discussion may be needed, but this is the traditional concept of rhetoric I employ in this...
Indeed, the name Musa is integral to artistic inspiration. The Latin etymology of Musa derives from the Muses of ancient Greece (Mousai), the nine mythological beings or demi-goddesses associated with the arts. Their powers of inspiration enabled mortals to conjure divine presence and radical ...
THE JIG IS UP by Lisa Q. MathewsAugust 20, 2024 IN THE EVENT OF MURDER by Cynthia KuhnAugust 20, 2024 BOUND by Becky ClarkJune 29, 2023 MY FAIR LATTE by Vickie FeeMarch 3, 2020 AS DIRECTED by Kathleen ValentiMarch 12, 2019 DYING ON THE VINE by Marla CooperApril 4, 2017 ...
8I translatekun rdzobas“concealing”in accordance with the Sanskrit etymology of the wordsaṃvṛti. For a detailed analysis of this term in Mipham’s presentation of the two truths, seepoint 2 below.9The two truths represent a didactic model commonly found in Buddhist literature. This...
Katsap Russians Etymology of the word comes from a tradition of Russian males, before Peter the Great, to uniformally wear a goatee. So it is a bastardaized pronounciation of "kak tzap", like a goat, in Ukranian. Katwa Muslims Slur used in India to represent Muslims (similar to Landy...
Jig Author Spotlight Written byMaham Liaqat Edited byTayyaba Rehman Tayyaba Rehman is a distinguished writer, currently serving as a primary contributor to askdifference.com. As a researcher in semantics and etymology, Tayyaba's passion for the complexity of languages and their distinctions has found...