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In reply to the discussion: We should have been colonizing the solar system by now. [View all]tama
(9,137 posts)of that short and rare glimpse of poetic ingenuity.
Another Gift from Greeks, it was, memory from the Academic past that repetitive stutter of first segment of verb in Greek morphology signaled not only iterative aspect as iconically expected but also and more commonly the peperfective aspect. Which can sound kinda flawed, at least to our barbarous ears that Latin of Law and Order commands to non leguntur when Graeca sunt, in addition to the afore mentioned timeo. Ah, the devious guile of the school masters and scholars! The plot behind all this was of course reverse psychology. All the juicy "humanely flawed interest" of school boys and girls towards Eros-heros of separation and combination was and is often stil left in Greek untranslated into Barbar or Latin. Plot to inspire interest in younger generations to learning Greek and to become kosmikoi, Men of World, in this comedy of errors we call life. Having now built the asinine bridge to both to the OP and and symbol of Democratic party, I can rest this case of reflective reconstruction.