Paphos Life

PW in Polemi wrote: ↑Tue Feb 12, 2019 7:00 pm But what about inept and discommode ... I don't think anybody is ever considered to be ept, nor am I aware of anybody being commoded ....

But what about ruthless ... you may well at some stage in your life be without hope or act without care, but has anybody ever acted ruthly ...

SOED on ruth
arch. ME.
[from RUE verb, prob. after Old Norse hrygð: see -TH1. Cf. WROATH.]
1. Compassion, pity; the feeling of sorrow for another. ME.
2. Contrition, repentance; remorse. Now rare. ME.
3. Sorrow, grief, distress. Formerly also, an instance or expression of this. ME.
† 4. a. A cause of or reason for sorrow or regret. ME–E17.
† b. Mischief; calamity; ruin. ME–M17.

• ruthful adjective (a) compassionate, pitying; (b) that engenders compassion or pity, pitiable; (c) (esp. of a sound, action, etc.) expressing grief or sorrow; (d) (of a person or emotion) sad, dejected: ME.
• ruthfully adverb (now rare) (a) in a pitiable way, piteously, dolefully; †(b) compassionately: ME.
• ruthfulness noun (rare) (a) sorrow, grief; (b) compassion: L16.

SOED on ept
M20.
[Back-form. from INEPT.]
Adroit, competent; appropriate, effective.
• eptitude noun M20.
• eptly adverb L20.

Lofos-5 wrote: ↑Tue Feb 12, 2019 8:33 pm der, die, das = the
le, la = the
il, i, le, la, l', gli, lo = the

enough said...

memory man wrote: ↑Wed Feb 13, 2019 11:54 am Aoccdrnig to a rscheearer at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it deosn't mttaer in waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are, the olny iprmoetnt tihng is taht the frist and lsat ltteer be at the rghit pclae. The rset can be a toatl mses and you can sitll raed it wouthit porbelm. Tihs is bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey lteter by istlef, but the wrod as a wlohe.



According to a researcher (sic) at Cambridge University, it doesn't matter in what order the letters in a word are, the only important thing is that the first and last letter be at the right place. The rest can be a total mess and you can still read it without problem. This is because the human mind does not read every letter by itself but the word as a whole.

zorbathejock wrote: ↑Wed Feb 13, 2019 12:16 pm I think it was George Bernard Shaw who pointed out the absurdity of English spelling and pronunciation with this example “ghoti”. Anyone hazard a guess as to how you say it.

Oxfordboy wrote: ↑Wed Feb 13, 2019 12:40 pm

zorbathejock wrote: ↑Wed Feb 13, 2019 12:16 pm I think it was George Bernard Shaw who pointed out the absurdity of English spelling and pronunciation with this example “ghoti”. Anyone hazard a guess as to how you say it.

That would be "fish". Obviously.....