My wife keeps telling me I should be ashamed of my well-used but therefore comfortable clothes. I say that I don't care what people think of my clothes. Daughter, age 27, is at the other extreme.
----------------------------------- Frank Wimberly My memoir: https://www.amazon.com/author/frankwimberly My scientific publications: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Frank_Wimberly2 Phone (505) 670-9918 On Sun, Dec 30, 2018, 4:52 PM Carl Tollander <[email protected] wrote: > 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 >> > ============================================================ > 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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