I got new tires on my car. "Tire" in this sense, may come from "attire", or "clothes, especially fine or formal ones".
Thus if we are retired, we are retailored? I like this definition better; we did not stop working, instead we have new "clothes", a la Carlyle's "Sartor Resartus". Carl On Sun, Dec 30, 2018 at 2:58 PM Gillian Densmore <[email protected]> wrote: > Nick, > ERMG So much that ^_^ . LOL good call their Steve on Chill-lax as old > school slang. While reading it's really fun for me to go wait a > second...what's that word actually mean? or associations i've had with it. > Love it. > > > Steve: Oh you Re-Minded me of a awesome phenomenon I'm seeing more and > more on Twitter. People saying no to paid work saying they'd rather go to > someplace they'll actually like to be at. That just happens to be charrity > stuff so far. A 14-15 year old swiss woman is making news for doing stuff > to help her nations ecology. > So far she's not Tired of doing that. > > > > > > > On Sun, Dec 30, 2018 at 1:50 PM Nick Thompson <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> Hi, Gill, >> >> >> >> Words are FUN! Back in the old days, when Latin and one other language, >> usually French, were part of a standard education, most words had a double >> association, the association that we all have (RE-tired, to be tired again) >> and the association that arose from having encountered the root for the >> word in another language. So, for instance, when I see “retired” I also >> see the French word “tirer”, to shoot, which would make the world mean >> “re-shot” or “shot back”. But then I also have a vague recollection of a >> latin verb, meaning to draw, and that leads me to wonder if perhaps the >> original meaning had to do with bows and arrows and perhaps the underlying >> metaphor is to draw back the string of the bow again. Now, all of this is >> probably wrong, and I will direct you to the correct etymology in a >> second, but just to say that having brushed up against a bunch of languages >> fills one’s head with a bunch of stuff that normal people might find >> bemusing. >> >> >> So, try etymology.com. Here is the entry for Retired >> <https://www.etymonline.com/search?q=retire>. And here is the entire >> entry. retire (v.) >> >> 1530s, of armies, "to retreat," from Middle French retirer "to withdraw >> (something)," from re- "back" (see re- >> <https://www.etymonline.com/word/re-?ref=etymonline_crossreference>) + >> Old French tirer "to draw" (see tirade >> <https://www.etymonline.com/word/tirade?ref=etymonline_crossreference>). >> Related: Retired >> <https://www.etymonline.com/word/Retired?ref=etymonline_crossreference>; >> retiring >> <https://www.etymonline.com/word/retiring?ref=etymonline_crossreference>. >> >> >> Meaning "to withdraw" to some place, especially for the sake of privacy, >> is recorded from 1530s; sense of "leave an occupation" first attested 1640s >> (implied in retirement). Meaning "to leave company and go to bed" is >> from 1660s. Transitive sense is from 1540s, originally "withdraw, lead >> back" (troops, etc.); meaning "to remove from active service" is from >> 1680s. Baseball sense of "to put out" is recorded from 1874. >> >> So you see, I was a little bit right, but mostly wrong. But, right or >> wrong, the associations are always fun and the sense that every time you >> use a word, you are in the midst of a web of history is bracing. >> >> >> >> Once you get into this website, you may get lost in it. This website is >> just a guy who fell in love with etymology, and so not necessarily >> “authoritative”. Look at his bio under “Who Did This”. He seems like the >> sort of guy who should come to FRIAM. >> >> >> >> Nicholas S. Thompson >> >> Emeritus Professor of Psychology and Biology >> >> Clark University >> >> http://home.earthlink.net/~nickthompson/naturaldesigns/ >> >> >> >> *From:* Friam [mailto:[email protected]] *On Behalf Of *Gillian >> Densmore >> *Sent:* Sunday, December 30, 2018 10:59 AM >> *To:* The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group < >> [email protected]> >> *Subject:* [FRIAM] Pondering weird english words >> >> >> >> While reading a book last night talking about some characters relaxing. >> I've always been curious. If Re: is to do again. then what was laxing >> supposed to be? >> >> Many people on this and the wed-tech list are REtired. So do you get >> Tired again then quit being a worker ? >> >> I seriously get these kind of words. >> >> Any guesses where they came from? >> ============================================================ >> FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv >> Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College >> to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com >> archives back to 2003: http://friam.471366.n2.nabble.com/ >> FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ by Dr. Strangelove >> > ============================================================ > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College > to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com > archives back to 2003: http://friam.471366.n2.nabble.com/ > FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ by Dr. Strangelove >
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