December 2010
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Interesting fact - Calque
ancientlives: In linguistics, a calque or loan translation is a word or phrase borrowed from another language by literal, word-for-word (Latin: “verbum pro verbo”) or root-for-root translation. For example, the common English phrase “flea market” is a phrase calque that literally translates the French “marché aux puces” (“market where one acquires fleas”)
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“The mark of a good book is that you’re happy to come home to it. The mark of a...”
– Derek Thompson, associate editor - The Atlantic on The Best Book I Read This Year (via lanipauli)
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“The mark of a good book is that you’re happy to come home to it. The mark of a...”
– Derek Thompson, associate editor - The Atlantic on The Best Book I Read This Year (via lanipauli)
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ancientlives: Dating Christmas →
ancientlives: The date of the birth of Christ was fixed in the 4th century. Before that, various dates were assigned to Christmas, including the 6th of January, the 25th of March and the 25th of December. The earliest reference to the date of December 25 comes from Theophilus of Antioch (A.D. 171-183)….
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ancientlives: Dating Christmas →
ancientlives: The date of the birth of Christ was fixed in the 4th century. Before that, various dates were assigned to Christmas, including the 6th of January, the 25th of March and the 25th of December. The earliest reference to the date of December 25 comes from Theophilus of Antioch (A.D. 171-183)….
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“The trouble with fiction is that it makes too much sense. Reality never makes...”
– Aldous Huxley in The Genius and the Goddess (1955)
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National Short Story Day →
anyone for hopping the pond with me this christmas?
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