Conjecture

[digitS']

Moving on ...

We will soon have to move on to that problem.

Are you trying to move on my girlfriend?

@baymule 's meme on posthole digger and w fence pilers, with the suggestion that some people are not familiar with them, made me think of something: "Good fences make good neighbors," attributed to Robert Frost's poem. But, as those who read the poem often point out, Frost didn't say that and he was hoping his neighbor would think about what it meant to be out there working together, when they had no livestock to fence in, or out.

Why do some say that they must return to their homes and "mend fences?" That perspective seems to do entirely with missteps and advantages taken by the speaker that imposes on and offends others.

The need to repair something and repair a relationship in the process. That is, at least to the extent that the neighbor or family member doesn't cause the speaker any problem ... while he or she goes about wherever self-interest leads. Why wasn't maintenance of that fence a continuous priority so your damn livestock didn't tear up my apple orchard, bro?

 

[RoseTeas]

As an 'old' autistic woman... words are fluid, not stable... time, circumstance, individual, culture... typically just observe others!

 

[RoseTeas]

Flip flops here to and as for lemons you got it wrong twice, it's lemon peal, full stop

Consistency is key! Love.

 

[ducks4you]

Moving on ...

We will soon have to move on to that problem.

Are you trying to move on my girlfriend?

@baymule 's meme on posthole digger and w fence pilers, with the suggestion that some people are not familiar with them, made me think of something: "Good fences make good neighbors," attributed to Robert Frost's poem. But, as those who read the poem often point out, Frost didn't say that and he was hoping his neighbor would think about what it meant to be out there working together, when they had no livestock to fence in, or out.

Why do some say that they must return to their homes and "mend fences?" That perspective seems to do entirely with missteps and advantages taken by the speaker that imposes on and offends others.

The need to repair something and repair a relationship in the process. That is, at least to the extent that the neighbor or family member doesn't cause the speaker any problem ... while he or she goes about wherever self-interest leads. Why wasn't maintenance of that fence a continuous priority so your damn livestock didn't tear up my apple orchard, bro?

This is altogether a reference of respecting others and their property.
MY rights only go as far as YOUR rights end, so MY property rights begin and end at the fence line separating the two of us, and so do Yours.
Those few inches should be amicably maintained by either of both with forgiveness towards "scalping the lawn."
Our next door neighbor to the south has had a permanent dumpster, kind of unsightly bc not all of the metal trash makes it inside. It used to bother me, so, I took the remainder of a 100ft roll or cattle fencing (when we used to have to repair the old fencing,) and stretched it out to put back the cattle fencing that had rusted away.
Keeps Eva in my yard and redefines the fence line.
Throw this entire argument OUT when you want to talk about my 1/8 acre strip of land, NOT fenced in, but extended south beyond the fence.
Our next door neighbor took it upon himself to mow it for YEEEAAARRRSSS, so I just assumed it belonged to him bc it looked like a west extension of His property.
Turns out, it belongs to US, and he just likes to mow Anything, kind of an obsession.
A few years ago, late Spring, DD wanted to shoot a video riding our mare (the one who just passed away). We shot for about an hour, and, being a horse, she deposited a few piles in the grass.
I go out in June and discover that it hadn't been mowed this year at all!!
He must have started mowed it, hit a pile of poo, and split a gut!!
Horse manure is NOT going to ruin a mower blade. It is liquid grass.
I told DH that we needed to mow this strip with the tractor bc it was pretty tall. I mowed the trim, he mowed the body of it, which took DD about 15 minutes to mow, and we did this for a couple of years. Then, last Spring, he took up mowing it again.
It saves me $gas money, and if it makes him happy, I'm good with it.
We never had a conversation about it.
If our neighbor ever dies (and moves) OR moves, I intend to put up a fence around it.

 

[digitS']

Have a family name or a community with an English name?

 

[catjac1975]

Language has always interested me altho I'm poorly suited for it – having impaired hearing from an early age. It may have something to do with having only one book in my childhood home other than the family bible. The dictionary was always there for the most simple of research on any subject. As a young teenager, my parents bought a set of World Book encyclopedias, oh boy!

The 2 linguists in the faculty of the university where I showed up for graduate school taught me to do field work. What choice? Otherwise, there was the museologist and 2 archeologists while I was doing social anthropology?? Anyway, I was happy with the linguists. Huh ?

I was curious about a word origin the other day — Stafford. Okay, I understand the ford part. I often drive past What I understand was a commonly used ford in the river, before a bridge was built nearby, about 130 years ago. The ford is almost in view from what was my distant garden of years past.

So, what is the "staf" or "sta?" The writers of dictionaries have apparently determined that it is a landing. So, it's the landing beside the ford. Okay. Through a body of information and the odds that there are connections, etymologists have traced "ford" and "landing" back to Old English and Old French. But "sta" ..? Well, how about "stay" as for ropes etc. for holding a boat?

Perhaps I am now in the realm of conjecture, to "infer, predict, form (an opinion or notion) upon probabilities or slight evidence." Perhaps not but it was just a name I was curious about and not as clear as Clifford or Redford or Kingsford ... not something that I want to go down the rabbit hole for .

Conjecture.

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[catjac1975]

Language has always interested me altho I'm poorly suited for it – having impaired hearing from an early age. It may have something to do with having only one book in my childhood home other than the family bible. The dictionary was always there for the most simple of research on any subject. As a young teenager, my parents bought a set of World Book encyclopedias, oh boy!

The 2 linguists in the faculty of the university where I showed up for graduate school taught me to do field work. What choice? Otherwise, there was the museologist and 2 archeologists while I was doing social anthropology?? Anyway, I was happy with the linguists. Huh ?

I was curious about a word origin the other day — Stafford. Okay, I understand the ford part. I often drive past What I understand was a commonly used ford in the river, before a bridge was built nearby, about 130 years ago. The ford is almost in view from what was my distant garden of years past.

So, what is the "staf" or "sta?" The writers of dictionaries have apparently determined that it is a landing. So, it's the landing beside the ford. Okay. Through a body of information and the odds that there are connections, etymologists have traced "ford" and "landing" back to Old English and Old French. But "sta" ..? Well, how about "stay" as for ropes etc. for holding a boat?

Perhaps I am now in the realm of conjecture, to "infer, predict, form (an opinion or notion) upon probabilities or slight evidence." Perhaps not but it was just a name I was curious about and not as clear as Clifford or Redford or Kingsford ... not something that I want to go down the rabbit hole for .

Conjecture.

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I always enjoy the ramblings of your mind. I wonder if your brain ever quiets down. Mine is always whirring too. But not in as much detail as yours.

 

[flowerbug]

I always enjoy the ramblings of your mind. I wonder if your brain ever quiets down. Mine is always whirring too. But not in as much detail as yours.

he's the smartest person who still talks to me...

 

[Shades-of-Oregon]

Out of curiosity I looked up my maiden last name of Lister …and this is what I found .
The Old English equivalent of the last name "Lister" is Litster ….which is a Middle English word meaning "cloth dyer" and is the occupational origin of the surname; essentially, someone who dyed cloth would be called a "Litster" in Old English times.
Lister or Lyster is an English occupational surname, and may refer to a textile dyer, from the Middle English word "litster", meaning to dye.

@digitS’ Alrighty then.. I was hoping it would have more of a connection with gardening , horticulture or flowers.
I never thought of looking up this translation before. Mmmm interesting..

So what’s your name mean in old English?

Even found the Lister crest.

 

[digitS']

So what’s your name mean in old English?

Shades, no one picked up on "stay" as a way to hold a boat at a ford or hold most anything. Then, "Stephen?"

We may remember that the saint was the first Christian martyr. The name is Greek and is most commonly suggested as coming from "crown." However, Etymonline expands that, " the Greek word also was used of the ring of spectators at a fight or the wall around a town. It is from stephein "to encircle, crown, wreathe, tie around ..."

Stephanos