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    Scarmoge posted an update 6 years, 1 month ago

    This comment is in response to a post by GW a day or so ago concerning the actions of the Queen of England. This posting is an experiment of sorts. When this was posted under GW’s post it went POOF! I have reposted it as a comment under GW’s post and am reposting it here to see if one or both go POOF! again. I can’t imagine why such benign content such as an entry from The Liddell & Scott would go POOF!
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    I posted this comment 2 days ago only to find that it mysteriously (`Why with an M?’ said Alice.`Why not?’ said the March Hare.) disappeared … Why? …
    It would seem that a dose of Greek or Latin might be of interest to machine learning algorithms. …

    (to the tune of The Hokey Pokey)
    You put the ancient language in your head in
    You put the ancient language in your head out
    Put the ancient language in your head in
    And bang it all about
    Do the hokey meaning pokey
    And turn yourself and your worldview around
    That’s what symbol and syntax are all about

    `Curiouser and curiouser!’ cried Alice
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    …since “moron” was mentioned …

    μόρος , ὁ, (μείρομαι A)
    A.= μοῖρα 111.1, fate, destiny, poet. and Ion. Prose: c. inf., μόρος [ἐστὶν] ὀλέσθαι ’tis my doom to die, Il.19.421; ὑπὲρ μόρον beyond destiny, of those who by their own fault add to their destined share of misery, 20.30, Od.1.34, etc. (to be written divisim, cf. μοῖρα; but cf. ὑπέρμορα, ὑπερμόρως).
    II. doom, death, “ὅτε μιν μόρος αἰνὸς ἱκάνοι” Il.18.465, cf. Pi.P.3.58, etc.; νῦν δ᾽ . . ἦλθέ ποθεν σωτήρ, ἢ μόρον εἴπω; A.Ch.1074 (anap.); in Hdt. always of a violent death, “τοιούτῳ μόρῳ ἐχρήσατο” 1.117; κακὸς μόρος, θάνατός τε μόρος τε, Il.21.133, Od.9.61, etc.; μόρῳ ἀνοσίῳ, αἰσχίστῳ, Hdt.3.65, 9.17, etc.; “μ. λευγαλέῳ” S.Fr.785: also in pl., Heraclit.20, 25, S.Ant.1313, 1329 (lyr.).
    2. corpse, “αἱματηφόρους μόρους” A.Th.420 (lyr.); “νέος νέῳ ξὺν μόρῳ ἔθανες” S.Ant.1266 (lyr.), cf. AP7.404 (Zon.).
    III. a measure of land in Locris, Berl.Sitzb.1927.8 (v B. C.); at Mytilene, IG12(2).74 B 3.
    IV. Μόρος personified, Hes.Th.211 (never in Trag., cf. “τόνδε Μοῖρ᾽ ἐπορσύνεν μόρον” A.Ch.911).
    – from The Liddell & Scott