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Al azar...
That's what I found too. But it's not a direct cognate for "random" although it's used the same way.
"Random" is from at random, by chance, at great speed, from Middle English randon, speed, violence, from Old French, from randir, to run, of Germanic origin.
"Al azar" is related to the English word "Hazard", from Middle English hasard, dice game, from Old French, possibly from Old Spanish azar, possibly from Arabic az-zahr, the gaming die : al-, the + zahr, gaming die.
Thanks, Bartleby.com!
So, when you vote at www.upa.org on the 11th edition rules, please don't do it al azar.
That's what I found too. But it's not a direct cognate for "random" although it's used the same way.
"Random" is from at random, by chance, at great speed, from Middle English randon, speed, violence, from Old French, from randir, to run, of Germanic origin.
"Al azar" is related to the English word "Hazard", from Middle English hasard, dice game, from Old French, possibly from Old Spanish azar, possibly from Arabic az-zahr, the gaming die : al-, the + zahr, gaming die.
Thanks, Bartleby.com!
So, when you vote at www.upa.org on the 11th edition rules, please don't do it al azar.
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From: Chris Stone <chstone62@...>
To: renoultimate@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Monday, January 8, 2007 8:35:17 PM
Subject: Re: [renoultimate] yo posse
From: Chris Stone <chstone62@...>
To: renoultimate@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Monday, January 8, 2007 8:35:17 PM
Subject: Re: [renoultimate] yo posse
Al Azar!
On Jan 8, 2007, at 8:24 PM, Chad Praul wrote:
Shit, you steel-balled buccaneers have forced me to admit that I follow these discussions on wifeless winter evenings.
However, I am compelled to ask this fountain of apocryphal knowledge a question:
Down in Costa Rica a reasonably unreliable source assured me that there is no word for "random" in Spanish.
Can I get a barna on this?
-chadski
Taylor Donovan <docdonovan@gmail.com> wrote:What was Yac talking about....random!On 1/8/07, Yac Coleman <frisbeeman2000@yahoo.com> wrote:hey all 6 tommorrow i have the key and will be there so see you thensorry nothing interesting from me about word usageAs much as I hate to rain on anyone's parade, I feel compelled to chime in on this linguistic party.
1. As a former man of the sea, I concur with the "barbecue" explanation of the origins of "buccaneer." Whether it was oxen or boars (which would have been imported, I believe, to the Caribbean by Spanish explorers) or manatees, this is the version I have heard most often from reliable sources.
2. Related to my man-of-the-sea status, the "Ship High In Transit" explanation is linguistically full of Ship High In Transit. According to Snopes:The word shit entered modern English language derived from the Old English nounsscite and the Middle Low German schite , both meaning "dung," and the Old English noun scitte, meaning "diarrhea." Our most treasured cuss word has been with us a long time, showing up in written works both as a noun and as a verb as far back as the 14th century.Scite can trace its roots back to the proto-Germanic root skit-, which brought us the German scheisse, Dutch schijten , Swedishskita, and Danish skide. Skit- comes from the Indo-European rootskheid- for "split, divide, separate," thus shit is distantly related to schism and schist . (If you're wondering what a verb root for the act of separating one thing from another would have to do with excrement, it was in the sense of the body's eliminating its waste — "separating" from it, so to speak. Sort of the opposite of today's "getting one's shit together.")
3. My ultimate related note: Don't forget to read the proposed 11th ed. Rules and vote yea or nay. THE FUTURE DEPENDS ON IT!
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