[lit-ideas] Re: The Philosophy of Bachelor
- From: Omar Kusturica <omarkusto@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: "lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 15 Mar 2013 03:02:46 -0700 (PDT)
Incidentally, I discovered that Spanish has two different words for
'bachelor'":
bachelor n (unmarried) soltero nm
peyorativo solterón nm
Ona laments the poverty in English in this field.
O.K.
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From: "cblitid@xxxxxxxx" <cblitid@xxxxxxxx>
To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Friday, March 15, 2013 9:14 AM
Subject: [lit-ideas] Re: The Philosophy of Bachelor
On 15-Mar-13, at 8:36 AM, Omar Kusturica wrote:
> Not to be pedantic, but bachelor isn't the same as unmarried male. (There is
> a divorced male, a widower, and a male child who is too young to marry)
... to say nothing of a 'bachelor button' - neither 'unmarried', 'male', nor 'a
small disc sewn onto a garment to fasten it'.
See:
http://flowers-image.blogspot.de/2012/07/bachelor-button.html
Chris Bruce,
waxing botanic, in
Kiel, Germany
P.S:: Just in case you were planning to join in: we have cancelled the
volunteer garden work (Ehrenamtliche Gartenarbeit) session scheduled for
tomorrow, March 16th at 2:30 p.m. in Kiel's Old Botanical Garden owing to the
fact that the garden still lies under a layer of snow (uncharacteristic for
Kiel in mid-March). The schedule for the remaining sessions from April to
October, 2013 is posted in the garden display case, on the door of the garden
toolshed, and in the pavillion.
See:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_Botanical_Garden,_Kiel
(which is a rather infelicitous summary in English of the more accurate, and
more richly illustrated German entry:)
http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alter_Botanischer_Garten_(Kiel)
-cb
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