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Originally Posted by pholy
Huh? I get 'marsh lightning' from digging through the geology section of this:
http://mysite.du.edu/~etuttle/classi...in/latin20.htm
But then I never took Latin - ever. So are you afraid of a will 'o the wisp? I can understand fear of lightning rods - especially if it's raining... |
I only did 6 months of it
But I have a tendency to trace through the etymology on words, and obscure stuff sticks. The useful stuff doesn't so much...
Palus is also Latin for stake, which is what I based my translation on, and fulgur as flashing or lightning. So not knowing the Dutch for speed cameras, lightening rod made more sense than flashing pole (of course, Sweetpea might have had an aversion to Eastern European flashers...)
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Originally Posted by Sweetpea
Flash poles... Which would be the original name (in Dutch!) of those speed cameras  (them being a Dutch invention ) |
I didn't know that
I hear that arson is a very effective cure, if administered in a balaclava whilst approaching the camera away from the lens side... however as most of them are digital now, I believe, it won't help if it's already flashed you...