Call me boring, but I know the answer to that. The re in refrigerate does not imply that is being made cold again. In the Latin it just implies a change of state, from warm to cold.
Interestingly (or not), in French too 're' does not necessarily imply a repetition but can act to reinforce the root meaning. > If you can scare the Be'Jesus out of somebody, where does it go? It doesn't go anywhere, it just becomes Was'Jesus. > How is it replenished? you find someone nice to Be'Jazzle you > How do you know if you have enough? Your cup runneth over B > -----Original Message----- > From: PDML [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Bob Sullivan > Sent: 23 July 2015 17:25 > To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List <[email protected]> > Subject: OT: Obscure Questions (was What's in the name?) > > speaking of obscure language questions... > > As my sons were growing up, we wondered what happened to Frigerators. > We knew about re-frigerators, but where were the originals? > A big landfill somewhere? > When the milk gets warm and you put it back in the refrigerator, whats > happening? > You replacing the original frigeration it had before breakfast? > > And Be'Jesus. > If you can scare the Be'Jesus out of somebody, where does it go? > How is it replenished? > How do you know if you have enough? > > Regards, Bob S. > > > On Wed, Jul 22, 2015 at 9:27 PM, Igor PDML-StR <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > > I know that there are quite a few language and grammar geeks among > PDMLers. > > That's why I thought I'd share this linguistic question that got me > > puzzled. > > > > I see that almost everybody who is talking about Circular Polarizers > > uses an abbreviation "CPL", either as a noun or adjective (e.g. CPL > > filter). The curious part is that none of the online photography > > articles and reviews that talks about "CPL" bothers to deabbreviate it. > > (Just as a reference, all scientific journals where I've published my > > articles require to define any abbreviation before using it for the > > first time, even for those that are common in the field.) > > > > So, my question is "What does the `L' in CPL stand for?" > > I have 3 versions of what it might be (or what photographers who use > > that abbreviation might mean), including a standard one that is > > typically used in optical methods in physics, chemistry and related > > areas of science. None of those 3 would be strictly speaking correct. > > So, I am suspecting that I might be missing something more obvious. > > > > So, what does the `L' in CPL stand for? > > > > Thank you, > > > > Igor > > > > > > -- > > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > > [email protected] > > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and > > follow the directions. > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and > follow the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
