Mertcan Bulak
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Having invented his own form of psychoanalysis, Jung now had naming rights. So it was Carl and not Sigmund who decided that a psychological problem should be called a complex . Then he thought up introverts and extroverts , and finally, realising that naming was a doddle, he invented synchronicity and ambivalent .
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By the same system, the old word crevis is now spelled and pronounced crayfish , even though it’s not very fishlike. The Spanish cucaracha became a cockroach , and most wonderfully of all, the Indian mangus became a mongoose , although there’s not a huge similarity between the furry, snake - devouring mammal and a goose.
If your host cooks you a nice hot dinner, you’re probably welcome. If he gives you yesterday’s leftovers – for example a "cold shoulder" of mutton – then he probably wishes you hadn’t come around. It could have been worse, though – he could have made you eat "humble pie" . Humble pie is made using the umbles or innards of a deer. Of course, the umbles are the worst parts of the deer.
Quintilian says that after you have chosen your words you must weave them together into a fabric – in textu iungantur – until you have a fine and delicate text [ ure [ ile ]] or textum tenue atque rasum . It’s the sort of thing we say all the time. We weave stories together and embroider them and try never to lose the thread of the story. Quintilian’s metaphor lasted. Late classical writers took up text to mean any short passage in a book and then we took it to mean anything that was written down.
Mating with somebody was originally just sharing your food, or meat , with them ( meat meant food of any kind and not just flesh). Likewise, your companion is somebody with whom you share your bread (from the Latin panis ).