[Peace-discuss] AWARE

[John W.]

On Thu, Sep 3, 2009 at 10:13 AM, Ricky Baldwin <baldwinricky at yahoo.com>wrote:

As the OED suggests (i.e. "punningly") a word's etymology (or "supposed
> etymology") is not the same as its definition.  Meanings also change over
> time.  Otherwise phrases like "rabbits and other deer" would still make
> sense down at the gas station.
> The rest of Wayne's comment might make sense somewhere, but I've never been
> there.
>
> Ricky
>
> "Speak your mind even if your voice shakes." - Maggie Kuhn
>


You should get out more, Ricky.  :-D




>
> --- On *Thu, 9/3/09, E. Wayne Johnson <ewj at pigs.ag>* wrote:
>
>
> From: E. Wayne Johnson <ewj at pigs.ag>
> Subject: Re: [Peace-discuss] AWARE
> To:
> Cc: peace-discuss at lists.chambana.net
> Date: Thursday, September 3, 2009, 10:04 AM
>
>
> Certainly Carl is correct in noting that a pontifex is one who builds a
> bridge between man and God.
>
> pontifex,  from pont-, stem of pons "bridge" + -fex, -ficis, root of
> facere "make."
>
> The connotation of pontifications being dogmatic follows from that
> position.  The messages flowing
> over the genuine bridge toward man are truth, and perfect.  Man, on the
> other hand, has many inventions.
>
>
> On 9/3/2009 3:06 AM, John W. wrote:
>
>  Incidentally, in my own dictionary perusings and musings - to say nothing
> of my life experience - I'm not seeing anything about a person who
> pontificates as being a "bridge builder":
>
> *pon·tif·i·cate
> *  (pŏn-tĭf'ĭ-kĭt, -kāt')
> n.  The office or term of office of a pontiff.
> intr.v.   (-kāt') *pon·tif·i·cat·ed*, *pon·tif·i·cat·ing*, *
> pon·tif·i·cates*
>
>    1. To express opinions or judgments in a dogmatic way.
>    2. To administer the office of a pontiff.
>
>
> [Latin pontificātus, from pontifex, pontific-, *pontifex*; see *pontifex*.
> V., from Medieval Latin pontificāre, pontificāt-, *to act as an
> ecclesiastic*, from Latin pontifex.]
> *pon·tif'i·ca'tion** n.*, *pon·tif'i·ca'tor** n.
>
> *The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
> Copyright © 2009 by Houghton Mifflin Company.
> Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.
>
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