Where does the saying "to doublecross someone" come from and what does is originally mean ? Two crosses ?
doublecross (plural doublecrosses)
An instance of betrayal of one who has been led to believe that the betrayer was assisting thim.
I found this:
An instance of betrayal of one who has been led to believe that the betrayer was assisting thim.
I found this:
Thank you.
By the way, I had been reading the tale of that Jonathan Wild - a fascinating tale ! He was not a bounty hunter, but rather the head of a criminal gang whose members stole stuff from wealthy perons, and he claimed he would be able to get it back for them "for a fee", of which he later gave part to the thief - who of ourse belonged to his gang - and kept another part of the "fee" for himself.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonathan_Wild
About one of his men who became famous in his own right because he managed to escape so many times : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Sheppard
Besides, I have found these 2 links via the computing magazine I'm regularly reading :
https://lingyourlanguage.com/
https://www.languagesquad.com/
By the way, I had been reading the tale of that Jonathan Wild - a fascinating tale ! He was not a bounty hunter, but rather the head of a criminal gang whose members stole stuff from wealthy perons, and he claimed he would be able to get it back for them "for a fee", of which he later gave part to the thief - who of ourse belonged to his gang - and kept another part of the "fee" for himself.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonathan_Wild
The figures of Peachum and Macheath were picked up by Bertolt Brecht for his updating of Gay's opera as The Threepenny Opera. The Sheppard character, Macheath, is the "hero" of the song Mack the Knife.
In Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes novel, The Valley of Fear, the arch-villain Professor Moriarty is referred to as a latter-day Jonathan Wild by Holmes41]
About one of his men who became famous in his own right because he managed to escape so many times : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Sheppard
Besides, I have found these 2 links via the computing magazine I'm regularly reading :
https://lingyourlanguage.com/
https://www.languagesquad.com/
If "poaching" is illegal hunting, why is then the word "poaching" for a special cooking method looking the same ?
According to Wikipedia Germany, the cooking term has French origins.
According to Wikipedia Germany, the cooking term has French origins.
Recently several municipalities have been merged in Norway. With new municipalites also comes the need for new slogans. There is a tendency that many slogans like tend to use lots of fancy words without saying much useful. Like the one selected by Grong: "Et aktivt og robust regionsenter med livskvalitet og mangfold" ("An active and stromg region scenter with quality of living, and diversity"). Ouch!!!
I think we should be able to do better.
One thing we shouldn't do however is ask the people. Like Ullensvang did. One of the suggestions was "Ullensvang – jævla bra kommune for faen" which translates to (I deliberately avoid special characters in this context)): "Ullensvang - a fucking nice municipality, dammit." Needless to say (saying it anyway), this slogan won the poll. And needless to say (still saying it) the result was rejected.
Some of the merges were not very well received. Especially the merge of the much larger communities. One of the least popular is the merging of Troms and Finnmark. As you can see from the map, this one is huge, around 20% of the total area of Norway, but still the least densely populated community (less than 5% of the total population of Norway):
The local government came up with the idea of asking the people what the new community should be called. The winner was "Mordor". The name selected was "Troms And Finnmark".
a pibbur who now lives in the "Vestland" community.
PS. Some years ago, the town Steinkjer used the slogan "IT-byen Steinkjer" ("The IT town, Steinkjer"), to indicate that they were a modern town with a focus on computer technology. They changed their mind when people started spraying "SK" in front of the IT ("SH" in English) on road signs. DS.
I think we should be able to do better.
One thing we shouldn't do however is ask the people. Like Ullensvang did. One of the suggestions was "Ullensvang – jævla bra kommune for faen" which translates to (I deliberately avoid special characters in this context)): "Ullensvang - a fucking nice municipality, dammit." Needless to say (saying it anyway), this slogan won the poll. And needless to say (still saying it) the result was rejected.
Some of the merges were not very well received. Especially the merge of the much larger communities. One of the least popular is the merging of Troms and Finnmark. As you can see from the map, this one is huge, around 20% of the total area of Norway, but still the least densely populated community (less than 5% of the total population of Norway):
The local government came up with the idea of asking the people what the new community should be called. The winner was "Mordor". The name selected was "Troms And Finnmark".
a pibbur who now lives in the "Vestland" community.
PS. Some years ago, the town Steinkjer used the slogan "IT-byen Steinkjer" ("The IT town, Steinkjer"), to indicate that they were a modern town with a focus on computer technology. They changed their mind when people started spraying "SK" in front of the IT ("SH" in English) on road signs. DS.
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Germany has had "not well received" mergers of its own. Baden-Württemberg is such an example. Both parts still don't like each other terribly well.
Other mergers were done within attempts to merge bigger towns with smaller villages. Cologne is such an example. That was common, and people not always liked it (my own town is such an example - a merger between an old, several hundred years old town with a newish town that was almost still a village, but had - and still has - a HUGE chemical plant at its border).
What's also common are jokes between members of various parts of the country. (I think we had this already mentioned here somewhere).
a pibbur who observes that the Quenya word for "bear" is "morco".
I think animal derived names originally were used to give the impression of power.
We also have the name "ulv" and "ulf" from the Norwegian word for "wolf". The name "Varg" also refers to the wolf.
The name "Arne" comes from "Orn" (eagle). My dad's name was Arnfred which means something like one who the eagle likes.
Other animals we find as names include the falcon ("Falk"), the swan ("Svanhild"), the moose ("Elg"). Worms ("Orm").There are others. Some sites claim that the female name "Jorunn" derives from the old Norse word for wild pigs, others say it's a horse .
"pibbur" derives from the Norwegian postal service.
What this comic illustrates very good, by the way, is the common fear of saying the actual , the "true" names of holy or of powerful entities.
We have this still in the Jewish religion, for example.
I once read in an (non-Wikipedia) article that Rome had a secret name. It is lost now as well, as very few knew it (or so I have this article in my mnemory) and there was some kind of ... omerta ? that no-one was allowed to speak it or otherwise make it public. One who did it, the article said, was killed.
Secrets as such - in general - were a sign of power. Withholding "hidden knowledge" was apparingly a sign of power. And maybe of holiness, too.
The Mithraism https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mithraism is poorly understood, for example, because it was a "secret religion", which means that its members were not allowed to speakl about it. So, most knowledge about it is lost.
There exists an ancient Egyptian text named "Admonitions of Ipuwer" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ipuwer_Papyrus , which complains that "there are no secrets anymore", among other things. He complaints that several times within that text.
A distant echo of this ban to speak a real or "true" name is found within the Harry Potter novels : There is an adversary whose name is almost never spoken (or at least very rarely), but instead described as "you-know-who" or as "who-must-not-be-named".
We have this still in the Jewish religion, for example.
I once read in an (non-Wikipedia) article that Rome had a secret name. It is lost now as well, as very few knew it (or so I have this article in my mnemory) and there was some kind of ... omerta ? that no-one was allowed to speak it or otherwise make it public. One who did it, the article said, was killed.
Secrets as such - in general - were a sign of power. Withholding "hidden knowledge" was apparingly a sign of power. And maybe of holiness, too.
The Mithraism https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mithraism is poorly understood, for example, because it was a "secret religion", which means that its members were not allowed to speakl about it. So, most knowledge about it is lost.
There exists an ancient Egyptian text named "Admonitions of Ipuwer" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ipuwer_Papyrus , which complains that "there are no secrets anymore", among other things. He complaints that several times within that text.
A distant echo of this ban to speak a real or "true" name is found within the Harry Potter novels : There is an adversary whose name is almost never spoken (or at least very rarely), but instead described as "you-know-who" or as "who-must-not-be-named".
Rule 1: You don't talk about the fight club.
Rule 2: You don't talk about the fight club.
a pibbur who found what the German said interesting, but still chose to be somewhat off-topic.
The importance of correct grammar:
a pibbur, the pibbur, the pibburs
a pibbur, the pibbur, the pibburs
Last year or the year before that someone sprayed that on a REAL roman wall within Cologne. It wasn't seen as funny by the local Archaeologists.
Taken from the Daily Smile thread : As an answer to pibbur's explanation :
https://www.rpgwatch.com/forums/showpost.php?p=1061621401&postcount=3048
Funnily, this word can even be translated from German language ! It looks as if it consists of several words : It's like "ishefrom" ("is he from ?") , but this compount in this form doesn't exist in German language. Whereas "vom" is I think Dativ case ?
"Vom" usually means "from a place", country, house, building, stable … I think.
Plus, "vom" is a compound of "von dem".
Further reading : https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/vom#German
Please note that "von" like in "von Stauffenberg" is *not* the same as "vom" !
I actually once read a second name containing "vom" : "vom see", which means "from the lake". It's a one in a million name like that, though. Extremely uncommon.
"Gammel" roughly means in German language "laziness". "Gammel Erik" would translate as "Lazy Erik", then.
A "Gammler" is someone who is exeedingly lazy. Basically an insult.
It is also used by Nazis to insult beggars, as they look as if they were only lying around and doing nothing, which is what a "Gammler" would do.
https://www.rpgwatch.com/forums/showpost.php?p=1061621401&postcount=3048
Funnily, this word can even be translated from German language ! It looks as if it consists of several words : It's like "ishefrom" ("is he from ?") , but this compount in this form doesn't exist in German language. Whereas "vom" is I think Dativ case ?
"Vom" usually means "from a place", country, house, building, stable … I think.
Plus, "vom" is a compound of "von dem".
Further reading : https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/vom#German
Please note that "von" like in "von Stauffenberg" is *not* the same as "vom" !
I actually once read a second name containing "vom" : "vom see", which means "from the lake". It's a one in a million name like that, though. Extremely uncommon.
"Gammel" roughly means in German language "laziness". "Gammel Erik" would translate as "Lazy Erik", then.
A "Gammler" is someone who is exeedingly lazy. Basically an insult.
It is also used by Nazis to insult beggars, as they look as if they were only lying around and doing nothing, which is what a "Gammler" would do.
I just noticed that the English "profane" is not like the German "profan".
The German "profan" is more = the English "mundane".
The German "profan" is more = the English "mundane".
This one will please watchers like the Ripper and the Corwin, so I probably shouldn't post it. But I'll do it anyway.
In Norwegian we have a saying "Fyttikatta", or "fy til katta", which translates (directly) into English: "shame on the cat". Its's an expletive, often used as a swear word: "Fyttikatta, nå er jeg sint" ("Shame on the cat, now I'm angry"). At other times it's used to amplify something: "Fyttikatta, hun er pen"="Shame on the cat, she's pretty" (thinking about our current, late cat. Or the wife.). I haven't found this phrase in English, but there is the expression "holy mackerel", which looks like it's similar. Unless it's part of some, to me, unknown detail in some, to me, (possibly) unknown religion.
There is also another cat phrase we use: "Det gir jeg katten i", directly translated to "I give the cat in that". It means something like "I don't give a damn".
Yet another one, also an expletive: "Katten klore meg"="The cat (can) claw me".
Then we have the word "catastrophe" (Norwegian: katastrofe). I don't think this word derives from "cat". But I'm pretty sure that the above mentioned haters will claim there a connection.
an incarnation of pibbur who assumes there are many more phrases like that for dogs, but has as yet to find any.
In Norwegian we have a saying "Fyttikatta", or "fy til katta", which translates (directly) into English: "shame on the cat". Its's an expletive, often used as a swear word: "Fyttikatta, nå er jeg sint" ("Shame on the cat, now I'm angry"). At other times it's used to amplify something: "Fyttikatta, hun er pen"="Shame on the cat, she's pretty" (thinking about our current, late cat. Or the wife.). I haven't found this phrase in English, but there is the expression "holy mackerel", which looks like it's similar. Unless it's part of some, to me, unknown detail in some, to me, (possibly) unknown religion.
There is also another cat phrase we use: "Det gir jeg katten i", directly translated to "I give the cat in that". It means something like "I don't give a damn".
Yet another one, also an expletive: "Katten klore meg"="The cat (can) claw me".
Then we have the word "catastrophe" (Norwegian: katastrofe). I don't think this word derives from "cat". But I'm pretty sure that the above mentioned haters will claim there a connection.
an incarnation of pibbur who assumes there are many more phrases like that for dogs, but has as yet to find any.
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