Rob
She's just playing games with you.
Your point about usage is spot on, one could consider for instance the
transformations of 'wicked' or 'gay', both of which post-date the Roman
Empire. Yeats's 'Lapis Lazuli' for example is turned into something
ridiculous by those changes (poets who are always gay, etc)
Keep cool, man. And this is NOT a bc sent by mistake front-line.
Best
Dave
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Robin Hamilton" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Thursday, November 29, 2001 1:48 AM
Subject: Re: Back on Planet Earth
> ... oh, jezuz-god-in -heaven ...
>
> ... don't you GET this, Erminia?
>
> What a word means NOW has fuck all to do with what to do what it meant
> "When* (then)".
>
> PLEASE, this is +silly+ ...
>
> [I could play this game till the bovines returned, but ...
>
> I'M GETTING BORED OUT OF MY SKULL!!!!
>
> Give it up ...
>
> (Please?)
>
> Robin
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Erminia Passannanti" <[log in to unmask]>
> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Thursday, November 29, 2001 12:53 AM
> Subject: Re: Back on Planet Earth
>
>
> >From the Latin Stupi dum , derived from the verb "stupire".
> Dal lat. stupi°du(m), deriv. di stupěre 'stupire' / to be caught
> by "stupor", amazement, surprise...
>
>
> Lemma: stupido
>
> Fonetica: [stů-pi-do]
> Etimologia: Dal lat. stupi°du(m), deriv. di stupěre 'stupire'
>
> Definizione: agg. Literal meaning: (bewildered, astonished)
> 1 (lett.) sbalordito, attonito: Ben s'avvide il poeta ch'io stava /
stupido
> tutto (DANTE Purg. IV, 58-59)
>
>
> Related extended meanings:
> 2 (retarded, slow minded)tardo nel comprendere, ottuso di mente, poco
> intelligente: una persona stupida; che stupido a non cogliere l'occasione!
> DIM. stupidello, stupidino ACCR. stupidone
>
>
> 3 (showing lack of intelligence: stupid: opposite than intelligent) che
> denota stupiditŕ, scarsa intelligenza: uno scherzo, un discorso stupido
> ¶ s. m. [f. -a] persona stupida: sei uno stupido!; non fare lo stupido!;
> non č uno stupido quel ragazzo, č intelligente
> § stupidamente avv.
>
> (literal meanings:)
>
> 1 in a fashion as to show astonishment "looking in the void"
>
> (lett.) in modo che denota stupore, sbalordimento: guardava stupidamente
> nel vuoto
>
> Extended meaning: with silliness, with lack of intelligence: to behave
with
> lack of intelelctual emotional responsiveness.
> 2 con stupiditŕ, con poca intelligenza: comportarsi stupidamente.
>
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