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words all around words all around sunday 7 july 2024 cryptic puzzles and a interestingly titled novel this is just a post to keep this blog alive i m enjoying the puzzles in the new york times my friends and i share our results here in melbourne we have a new newsletter each week about words and puzzling and it has introduced me to many more of the intricacies of cryptic puzzling recently a novel was mentioned in that newsletter the cryptic clue how could i refuse the chance to read a book with a title like that it was a good read i d certainly recommend it posted by parlance at 20 53 no comments labels cryptic puzzles the cryptic clue saturday 30 march 2024 maundy and maun at church on the thursday night before easter i was most interested to hear in the homily that the older name for that day is maundy thursday we generally call it holy thursday the priest said that the older meaning was that christ gave us a mandate to love one another and serve each other humbly as he demonstrated in washing the the feet of his followers sure when i looked around the internet the same definition popped up a scottish word then occurred to me maun when i looked up the meaning there is was maun means must posted by parlance at 19 02 no comments labels easter etymology mandate maun maundy must thursday 13 october 2022 the origin of the word grotesque since the advent of the corona virus and all the subsequent problems i don t yet feel like travelling however one of the places i would one day like to see is the domus aurea of nero in rome i was reminded of it today when i received my regular text from delanceyplace com this email consists of excerpts from books and today s was from haunted by leo braudy it was a discussion of the origin of the word grotesque which comes from the italian word grotto meaning a cave here is a little quote from today s delanceyplace excerpt in the late fifteenth century raphael sanzio more remembered as a great painter who was then head of antiquities for rome as well as the chief architect of the vatican supervised the partial excavation of nero s domus aurea golden house which had recently been discovered to exist under what was other wise assumed to be a natural hill near the colosseum the site had been dis covered in the course of digging a well there when workmen broke through what was found to be the dome of an enormous room lowered down on ropes to explore this vast underground construction they discovered a series of equally large rooms on whose walls were paintings of mingled human and animal forms fantastically tangled with vegetation fruits and flowers that were dubbed grottesca the kind of visual images to be found in grottoes it would be fabulous to tour the partially restored building and wear virtual reality equipment to experience it the way it originally was maybe one day i ll get there in the meantime here are a couple of sites that give an idea of what that tour might be like this one is in german here s another one in english i think this site is worth a visit because it explains a little of why the place disappeared from history after nero died posted by parlance at 21 09 no comments labels domus aurea english grotesque language rome vocabulary wednesday 13 july 2022 the benefits of research in a second language it has been a long time since i put anything new here i ll just write a quick post to keep the blog alive at the beginning of the long lockdowns here in victoria australia i like many others was looking for some intellectual stimulation to help me deal with the stress it occurred to me to take up my study of german again after many decades of not reading or speaking the language i was very lucky to come across a great class run by the cae here in melbourne german language online at first to me it was a matter of learning the language then after a while it became learning in that language and finally i ve arrived at the stage where it s learning about things in the new language this ability to discover information in german has opened up many new doors for me for instance recently my dog peppa had a grass seed in her foot major bother and major expense when i went to the vet today for what i hope is the final check up on her recovery he told me how grass seeds drill into the flesh of dogs and are formed in such a way that they resist being pulled out i felt quite pleased to say that i d read about this recently on a german website i d visited lots of blogs and webpages about the problem as any concerned dog owner would but that specific piece about the structure of grass had been in german i d taken notice of it because i was looking for the translation of the word grannen on the german site the word means awn in english wikipedia has a rather scary explanation of how the awns of wild emmer wheat bury themselves in the soil i d better not go down that rabbit hole or i ll never take my dog to a grassy area again here s hoping the grasses around here are less active knowing german is great fun because there s so much of the internet to explore posted by parlance at 17 15 no comments labels awn cae danger dog dogs emmer grass german language learning melbourne research second seed wheat wild thursday 28 april 2022 what a rigmarole i was visiting a blog called misadventures of widowhood and wanted to comment in one of those mysterious internetty occurrences i had to sign out of blogger in order to make my comment and i wrote about the rigmarole involved well i had thought i was going to use that term but after trying rigamarole rigmorale rigmorole i had to admit to myself that i didn t know how to spell this word it s one of those words that you say and think you know but in the end have little idea of its origin for me knowing the history of a word helps the spelling stick in my head so i visited mental floss to see what i could discover i enjoyed reading that site s take on the history of the word a visit to en academic com gives lots of definitions and histories for the term hopefully after writing this post i might remember how to spell it posted by parlance at 02 59 no comments labels english language rigmarole spelling saturday 1 january 2022 a frantic start to 2022 i titled this post as if i m frantically running around on the first day of 2022 but obviously i m actually sitting at my computer doing nothing special however seeing it s a new year i thought i d like to resume writing posts perhaps only occasionally as my new puppy was racing past after pinching yet another sock from the dirty clothes basket she seemed rather frenetic and then i wondered if that s the same as being frantic it seems the two words come from the same historical roots with the underlying concept of a mind gone mad well in human terms stealing items of clothing and chewing on them might seem crazy but i ll bet to a puppy it makes sense i think the concept of affected by wild excitement might fit the bill i enjoyed reading this blog post posted by parlance at 15 54 1 comment saturday 27 march 2021 i noticed a sign locally saying mercedes benz and wondered if there would be any connection in the benz part with the word benzine a quick search of the online etymology dictionary came up with the word spelled as benzene but as having been coined by the chemist eilhardt mitscherlich as benzin he had obtained it from a distillation of benzoic acid on quora there s a reliable looking answer that says benzine is the obsolete spelling of benzene however the macquarie australian dictionary has it with both spellings i m feeling a bit silly about this because i actually thought benzine was another word for petrol gas in the us at least i now know the word has no connection to mercedes benz and it means a colourless volatile flammable liquid aromatic hydrocarbon c 6 h 6 obtained chiefly from coal tar and used as a solvent and in chemical synthesis definition from the macquarie dictionary but it still lurks in my subconscious that there s some connection given that the german word for the petrol is das benzin well at least this should help me remember the gender of that word neuter i always find it tricky to remember what gender german nouns are posted by parlance at 22 03 no comments labels benzene benzin benzine older posts home subscribe to posts atom visit my other blog my dog welcome welcome to parlance s blog about language in the fifteenth century the printing press brought widespread access to knowledge that had previously been reserved for the elite later the development of the telegraph the telephone radio and television provoked predictions of doom now mobile phones and the internet are underpinning another massive change in our language not everyone is happy to see these changes but i am i love words and i m agog to see how they change and adapt to the realities of twenty first century life i hope you re visiting this blog because you feel the same followers about me parlance melbourne victoria australia teacher writer dog lover gardener miniaturist that s part of who i am i hope through writing i can discover more about myself and more about the interesting world around me view my complete profile subscribe to posts atom posts all comments atom all comments popular posts helen keller realises everything has a name i have the pleasure of working sometimes with young people who want to improve their ability to read and write today i wanted to talk to a etymology linking emergence and emergency what s the connection between emergence and emergency today at acmi what a wonderful place i saw this sign when i first n origin of the dog name fido we think of dogs as faithful companions hence the use of the word fido as a generic term for domesticated dogs google answers re skewiff after enjoying the novel jack maggs by peter carey i read a review of it on his website the review s by peter kemp in the sunday tim recent comments want this widget blog archive 2024 2 july 1 cryptic 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