Did you uhh.. did you walk there? Because… it would be really col to get a video clip of you walking there and then put “Walking in Memphis” in the background.
Did you uhh.. did you walk there? Because… it would be really col to get a video clip of you walking there and then put “Walking in Memphis” in the background.
Uh, nowhere on here did I say anything about being ‘Back Home Again In Indiana’. There’s a post from the 4th about going to Memphis, and then a post on the 5th saying That I was back from Memphis (and also YES.)
For future reference, though, I’ll always mention the title of that patriotic hymn to our maizine (blast, what’s the real latin adjective for corn?) motherland when I return there in the future.
How could there be a Latin word for corn? It was native to America, no? Any Latin word for it would be purely synthetic… might as well just say “cornibus”
Dude, Latin has been coined long after the fall of Rome, and due to the fact that at the time maize was discovered here in the new world all the European scholars were writing in Latin that there is some word for it.
The primary problem with finding such a word is that while corn means maize here in America, it seems to also mean or have meant wheat in England. A good example of this wierdness is the fact that an alternate word for crop circles is ‘corn circles’, when, as far as I can tell, they are done almost exclusively in wheat!
The thign coming up with most frequency on Perseus is frument- for a headword of ‘corn’, but that’s where frumentaceous comes from, which means “of or relating to grain, especially wheat,” to paraphrase the AHD.
I wish I knew where my good hard-copy Latin dictionary was; I’d have a better crack at this. I guess frumentaceous would work here well enough, though. And, FYI, corn- is horn or trumpet (e.g., capricorn; cornet). EAT THAT KRAMER.
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GMT-0500 07:51:25 0405.5 (Wed)
I’ll be back Thursday night
When are you heading for El America de Southo?
GMT-0500 08:36:54 0405.5 (Wed)
Did you uhh.. did you walk there? Because… it would be really col to get a video clip of you walking there and then put “Walking in Memphis” in the background.
GMT-0500 08:37:23 0405.5 (Wed)
Did you uhh.. did you walk there? Because… it would be really col to get a video clip of you walking there and then put “Walking in Memphis” in the background.
GMT-0500 12:02:44 0405.5 (Wed)
Um … QUOI?
GMT-0500 13:25:56 0405.5 (Wed)
Ryan, it’s from a song
also BEN PLEASE ANSWER MY QUESTION OK
GMT-0500 21:07:29 0405.5 (Wed)
Uh, nowhere on here did I say anything about being ‘Back Home Again In Indiana’. There’s a post from the 4th about going to Memphis, and then a post on the 5th saying That I was back from Memphis (and also YES.)
For future reference, though, I’ll always mention the title of that patriotic hymn to our maizine (blast, what’s the real latin adjective for corn?) motherland when I return there in the future.
GMT-0500 23:00:39 0405.5 (Wed)
Matt, Ben is being picked up on the 15th of May.
GMT-0500 23:02:37 0405.5 (Wed)
Ben, we’re picking you up on the 15th, in case we forgot to tell you.
GMT-0500 00:15:05 0405.6 (Thu)
Thank you Mrs. Lamb
How could there be a Latin word for corn? It was native to America, no? Any Latin word for it would be purely synthetic… might as well just say “cornibus”
GMT-0500 02:50:06 0405.6 (Thu)
Dude, Latin has been coined long after the fall of Rome, and due to the fact that at the time maize was discovered here in the new world all the European scholars were writing in Latin that there is some word for it.
The primary problem with finding such a word is that while corn means maize here in America, it seems to also mean or have meant wheat in England. A good example of this wierdness is the fact that an alternate word for crop circles is ‘corn circles’, when, as far as I can tell, they are done almost exclusively in wheat!
The thign coming up with most frequency on Perseus is frument- for a headword of ‘corn’, but that’s where frumentaceous comes from, which means “of or relating to grain, especially wheat,” to paraphrase the AHD.
I wish I knew where my good hard-copy Latin dictionary was; I’d have a better crack at this. I guess frumentaceous would work here well enough, though. And, FYI, corn- is horn or trumpet (e.g., capricorn; cornet). EAT THAT KRAMER.