On Sun, Feb 16, 2003 at 12:54:46PM -0600, Ronn!Blankenship wrote: > At 12:23 PM 2/16/03 -0500, Erik Reuter wrote: > >On Sun, Feb 16, 2003 at 08:36:11AM -0800, Nick Arnett wrote: > >> 1 2 3.92% amatorization > > > >amo, amas, amat : love > >mort : death > > > >Loving the death process? :-) > > > >amortization, root amortize, comes from Latin, ad=towards and mort=death > > > > At 09:50 AM 2/16/03 -0800, Nick Arnett wrote: > >It was from a misspelling of amortization. We were talking about real > >estate, IIRC. > > > Of course, "mortgage" _does_ come from the root "mort": it essentially > means you have agreed to keep paying until you die . . .
Next you'll be telling us that if only Monica Lewinsky wore a chastity belt, everything would have turned out okay! -- "Erik Reuter" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.erikreuter.net/ _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
