Re: [tied] Re: Albanian "vatër"

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From: "alex" <alxmoeller@...>
To: <cybalist@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Wednesday, June 04, 2003 9:20 PM
Subject: Re: [tied] Re: Albanian "vatër"


> veteranus= soldier because "one with experience". In your opinion just
> soldiers have had experience and the ship-builders not, thus just the
> soldier could become "veterans". That is weak.

"Me that 'ave been what I've been -- me that 'ave gone where I've gone -- me
that 'ave
seen what I've seen..." That's about soldiers.

In Britain, the word <houseman> almost always means 'junior doctor', though
many other men are connected with houses one way or another. An <undertaker>
is used almost exclusively of a very particular type of undertaking. Please
leave poor veterans alone. The've suffered enough.

Piotr