TIME quoting Putin

[imwitty]

Victor,

You have to surrender... (;'-)))

When you said ... "Bashka" is the more colloquial, *perhaps even vulgar*,
expression for "head"..., you definitely made a distinction between two
meanings of the term "vulgar".

I'm sure that my Latin professor would be laughing for a while ... if he
could read our discussion.

Unfortunately, I can't ask him anymore: he was almost 60 when I attended his
classes/lectures, and it was 45 years ago.

Lora
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On Sun, Sep 12, 2010 at 7:36 PM, victor steinbok <aardvark66 at gmail.com>wrote:

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> Pretentious? Perhaps. But I was just being honest.
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> OED :: vulgar a. I. 2. In common or general use; common, customary, or
> ordinary, as a matter of use or practice.
>
> More to the point, the OED etymology:
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> [ad. L. vulgar-is, f. vulg-us the common people. Cf. OF. and F.
> vulgaire, Sp. and Pg. vulgar, It. volgare.]
>
> Perhaps the problem was trying to think both in Russian and English at
> the same time.
>
> VS-)
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> On 9/12/10, Wilson Gray <hwgray at gmail.com> wrote:
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> > On Sun, Sep 12, 2010 at 4:07 AM, Victor Steinbok <aardvark66 at gmail.com>
> > wrote:
> >> "vulgar" in more Latin sense
> >
> > Give me a break, Victor. That's a bit pretentious for this level of
> > discourse.
> >
> > --
> > -Wilson
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