Need to Change my Signature - carpe diem!

[digitS']

But, it won't be "carpe diem," just at this moment, anyway.

I learned something about that Latin phrase, recently. It doesn't quite mean "seize the day," as we so often hear. No, the Encyclopedia Britannica tells us that the English of carpe isn't seize but pluck. Pluck the Day --- as in "Gather ye rosebuds while ye may ..."

Live in the moment and, yes, make the most of it. Grasp it as one would the stems of flowers, hmm?

Steve
who still has seed orders to make and will go off and do some of those now ...

 

[Smart Red]

@digitS', I totally dislike that change in your

 

[thistlebloom]

Are you saying that you can't seize a rosebud?

Pluck the day seems to lack energy.....

 

[Smart Red]

Sieze has the connotation of sudden, swift, in passion while pluck is choose, select, reach out for this day. I believe I like the "new found" meaning far better. I tend not to be a hasty person. Steve, I still don't like your new

 

[baymule]

Ya'll are funny.

 

[thistlebloom]

Sieze has the connotation of sudden, swift, in passion while pluck is choose, select, reach out for this day. I believe I like the "new found" meaning far better. I tend not to be a hasty person. Steve, I still don't like your new

I guess I'm just the impulsive type.
Excuse me now, I must go have a seizing....

 

[Lavender2]

Sunfishe is better than carpe any day.

..and @Smart Red , I thought you were losing it for a minute there...

 

[Smart Red]

Sunfishe is better than carpe any day.
..and @Smart Red , I thought you were losing it for a minute there...

Obviously ya have never tasted Rock River Carpe. It is a high priced specialty food in New York's fine restaurants.
Losing it for only a minute? That's a lot better than what DH has suggested. I'll take it!

 

[digitS']

I did look at the word "carp" before I posted this. The verb form means to complain or find fault and is supposed to be from Old Norse karpa, to boast but still related to Latin carpere, to pluck. I don't know how many Norse words are derived from Latin.

The idea that "carping on" something might have to do with boasting makes good sense. Boastful people often have opinions on most everything under the sun, and feel a strong compulsion to tell everyone what those opinions are.

Still, carps swimming slowly about near the muddy bottom seem to be as rather full of themselves when I've seen them from a bridge high above the water. They don't spook easily. I have wondered if that isn't mostly because they pay little attention to anything beyond their own nearsighted, muddy interests.

Steve

 

[Smart Red]

Around here, these alien invasives have taken over as the top species in the river here. Bottom feeders, they might be, but they've been found with ducklings in their tummy. Their position as head honchos came about because their spawning along the edges of the river destroys the eggs laid by native game fish.

Every few years the DNR tries to eliminate the carp, while game fish are raised on state fish farms and 'seeded' into the river every year.