Then I suppose you have never heard of 'sine die' either?
I know what both of them mean, I'm saying it's not a word someone outside of politics or law would use very often or ever.
Then I suppose you have never heard of 'sine die' either?
I know what both of them mean, I'm saying it's not a word someone outside of politics or law would use very often or ever.
Then I suppose you have never heard of 'sine die' either?
lol I just looked "sine" and "die" up. I understand now why Les mentioned something about vampyres and how the term relates to politics. Pols are vampyres.I'm very cognizant of both words individually but not in tandem.
Wonder what ever happened to vcullen. If he's here he's not showing himself to us. I kind of miss him.I remember on Canada.com forum I once used the word ‘internecine’ (it means mutually destructive). One poster actually thanked me for using it. He didn’t know the word, he had to look it up in the dictionary and he was happy to learn a new word.
Must have been Crow!
Another time I used the word ‘shellacking’. A poster wondered how I ever managed to learn the word, according to him, it was a very obscure word. But nobody has called me arrogant for using a less known word (not that it would make any difference to me if anybody did)
Anyone who grew up when we did should know the word shellacking. It's just not used so much anymore.
I'm very cognizant of both words individually but not in tandem.
Wonder what ever happened to vcullen. If he's here he's not showing himself to us. I kind of miss him.
It's a term lawyers use frequently.JLM, it is a term used in Parliamentary business, along with ‘prorogue’. FP mentioned ‘prorogue’, so that reminded me of ‘sine die’. Google for ‘sine die’ and you will find out.
Incidentally, ‘sine’ here is not pronounced as the word ‘sign’, but it is pronounced as ‘psy-nay’.(pronounce ‘psy’ as you would in ‘psychology’).
JLM, it is a term used in Parliamentary business, along with ‘prorogue’. FP mentioned ‘prorogue’, so that reminded me of ‘sine die’. Google for ‘sine die’ and you will find out.
Incidentally, ‘sine’ here is not pronounced as the word ‘sign’, but it is pronounced as ‘psy-nay’.(pronounce ‘psy’ as you would in ‘psychology’).
Wonder what ever happened to vcullen. If he's here he's not showing himself to us. I kind of miss him.
lol
Gadzooks, what an odd thread!
BTW, berms are used in construction, mining, etc.
The word berm is used in land surveying all the time. A road shoulder is often called a berm.
In common parlance, entropy means disorder. Greater the entropy, greater the disorder in the system.
If universe is a closed system, its entropy is ever increasing, the universe is winding down. But then the question is, what wound it up in the first place?
The word berm is used in land surveying all the time. A road shoulder is often called a berm.
Berm is also a tem used in the construction of firing ranges. It is a term I have grown to despise as we have been vehemently coerced to construct them to ever more rigorous standards in order to conform to regulations put in place by an effete collection of statists to placate the nattering nabobs of disarmament.
I get the feeling that "berm" is a word that is hanging on to it's place in the English language by it's fingernails...;-)