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Non-Wargaming Discussion => Fun Stuff => Topic started by: FierceKitty on 22 May 2023, 01:06:03 AM

Title: Further linguistic musings
Post by: FierceKitty on 22 May 2023, 01:06:03 AM

Can we say we overstand something which eludes our comprehension? Do the forces which defeat a coup d'etat underthrow the government? Do overtakers exhume the buried? If you overtake a task, does that bespeak an intention not to perform it? And if I, as a wargamer, inscout my enemy, have I neglected my light troops and left myself vulnerable to ambushes and other nasties?

An instanding group of questions!
Title: Re: Further linguistic musings
Post by: Heedless Horseman on 22 May 2023, 04:35:31 AM
Just to digress... ;)
When I hear the lyric from Disney 'The Lady And The Tramp' song, (Dean martin, I think?)...
"When the Moon Hits Your Eye, Like a Big Pizza Pie... (That's Amore)"
... for some reason, I blame Dumbo!  :o  ;)
Title: Re: Further linguistic musings
Post by: FierceKitty on 22 May 2023, 05:11:29 AM
When an eel bites your hand
With a pain you can't stand,
That's a moray.

When you're feeding a horse
Who wants more than one course,
That's some more hay.

When a beam from the sun
Hits the heath where we run,
That's a moor ray.

etc. etc.
Title: Re: Further linguistic musings
Post by: Lord Kermit of Birkenhead on 22 May 2023, 05:38:49 AM
OUCHHHH
Title: Re: Further linguistic musings
Post by: paulr on 22 May 2023, 06:10:19 AM
 X_X
Title: Re: Further linguistic musings
Post by: Ithoriel on 22 May 2023, 06:55:27 AM
I don't "overstand what you are under inside", FK :P
Title: Re: Further linguistic musings
Post by: Lord Kermit of Birkenhead on 22 May 2023, 07:33:17 AM
Quote from: Ithoriel on 22 May 2023, 06:55:27 AMI don't "overstand what you are under inside", FK :P

Don't encourage the kitty
Title: Re: Further linguistic musings
Post by: FierceKitty on 22 May 2023, 08:01:04 AM
Should he outcourage the kitty?
Title: Re: Further linguistic musings
Post by: sunjester on 22 May 2023, 03:34:50 PM
Quote from: Heedless Horseman on 22 May 2023, 04:35:31 AMJust to digress... ;)
When I hear the lyric from Disney 'The Lady And The Tramp' song, (Dean martin, I think?)...
"When the Moon Hits Your Eye, Like a Big Pizza Pie... (That's Amore)"
... for some reason, I blame Dumbo!  :o  ;)
To digress further, Dean actually sang that in the 1953 Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis comedy film The Caddy, not The Lady and the Tramp, so I'm afraid you can't blame the flying elephant! Jazz legend Peggy Lee sang (and co-wrote) most of the songs for L&TT.
Title: Re: Further linguistic musings
Post by: Heedless Horseman on 22 May 2023, 07:16:11 PM
You are right, Sunjester! Got it confused with Bella Note. But... has been about 55 yrs, since watched! ;)
Title: Re: Further linguistic musings
Post by: Last Hussar on 24 May 2023, 08:33:34 PM
I see you have been docent, I am whelmed.