Not related, but I made a comment to a friend in avoiding a hilly bike trail ... "ich bin nicht faul, einfach bequem." She asked how to say bequem in English, and I wasn't sure. "I'm not lazy, just not a masochist either" is a bit of a jump, but nothing else comes to mind. Thoughts?
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Not related, but I made a comment to a friend in avoiding a hilly bike trail ... "ich bin nicht faul, einfach bequem." She asked how to say bequem in English, and I wasn't sure. "I'm not lazy, just not a masochist either" is a bit of a jump, but nothing else comes to mind. Thoughts?
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Three one-hundredths of a second
(Somewhat prompted by watching the Olympics.) Why is that silly redundancy there in "three one-hundredths of a second"? Nobody says "two one-thirds…
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Word 'Climax'. A note for aspiring etymologists.
The English word climax has two seemingly incompatible meanings of "climax" and "orgasm". Yet, we should not forget that the word has not only a…
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The extended etymology for Ego, Εγώ ( I )
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