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I have never heard the term "Inquisition" used to define an ordinary adjudicating council.
Neither did I ever hear the same used as a synonim of "inquest". I'd say that "Inquisition" has a meaning strictly related to history and is never used in everyday speech except as a metaphor relating to biased judgement on one's personal ideas/opinions/beliefs
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My middle name is Francesca, but Franziska is the character of a popular Italian ballad, a girl whose sweetheart is an outlaw who can't marry her, but who won't let her marry anybody else either.
This is a translation of the song's last verse:
They told me that Franziska
is tired of waiting
she will see even her little sister married.
Yesterday a man smiled at her on the square
he was for sure a stranger,
he didn't know what he was risking.
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I believe that t.shirt is short for training shirt, a garment one uses in gyms. Also, I believe it to be a rather recent term, substituting the older one "vest"; personally, I never heard it used before the Eighties. In Italian also there are two different terms: camicia (dress shirt) and maglietta (t.shirt). These also relate to different kind of material, cotton (or linen, silk etc...) fabric in the first instance, light cotton jersey in the second.
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In Italy we have a say: "better one day ad a lion than 100 days as a sheep." It's a typically romantic attitude, but it doensn't possibly apply to everyday life. Besides, it seems really dangerous and a bit on the "terrorist" side, don't you think?
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I have just discovered, while reading "Ivanhoe" that "bewildered" originally meant literally "lost in the wild". Isn't that interesting? I mean, the shift from literal to metaphoric?
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bewildered, at one's wits end,flabberghasted
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The "pan" prefix in panopticon derives from ancient greek "pan" meaning "all, everything".
Other words with the same prefix:
pandemia = a global epidemic
pantheism = a philosophical approach seeing God in everything
Christ Pantocrator = Christ ruler of everything
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"summik" is actually cockney, London dialect, more than slang.
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Son of a traitor?
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Kat wrote:I live in a coastal community where fishing is a major industry and employs many people.
Below is an introduction to PETA’s campaign to save “Sea Kittens” taken directly from their website..................
"Given the drastic situation for this country's sea kittens who are often the victims of many major threats to their welfare and ways of life—it's high time that the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) stop allowing our little sea kitten friends to be tortured and killed. Who'd want to hurt a sea kitten anyway?! Sea kittens are just as intelligent (not to mention adorable) as dogs and cats, and they feel pain just as all animals do. Please take just a few moments to send an e-mail to H. Dale Hall, the director of the FWS, asking him to stop promoting the hunting of sea kittens (otherwise known as "fishing"). The promotion of sea kitten hunting is a glaring contradiction of FWS' mission to "conserve, protect and enhance fish, wildlife and plants and their habitats."
There is obviously much more to the website then this, just not enough room to fit here.
Haven't fish been supplying nourishment to mankind since the beginning of time?
What's your opinion?
Mankind has evolved as an omnivorous breed. If Mother Nature (or God) had wanted us to eat grass, She (or He)would have given us a multiple stomach like the one cows have. Besides, I wouldn't call a barracuda or a shark "adorable" neither would I try to pet them...
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