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Nov. 13th, 2004 04:31 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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The answer is cheeses.
I have been much too amused by get fuzzy lately. It does not merit this. My apologies.
Interestingly, it should be noted that Socrates' Apology wasn't an apology in our sense of the word, it was an Apologia, or a legal defense. So instead of calling it "The Apology" we should really call it "The Defense", but we don't because of the cognate thing. Even though it's wrong.
I have been much too amused by get fuzzy lately. It does not merit this. My apologies.
Interestingly, it should be noted that Socrates' Apology wasn't an apology in our sense of the word, it was an Apologia, or a legal defense. So instead of calling it "The Apology" we should really call it "The Defense", but we don't because of the cognate thing. Even though it's wrong.
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Date: 2004-11-13 01:45 pm (UTC)That guy also *giggles* misunderstood the professor's comment that the Brooklyn Bridge was a toll bridge, and then got upset when we all giggled after he asked "why, how tall is it now?"