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[victusinveritas]

[wishesbythesea]

[jondrettegirls]

[ID: A page of a play. It reads as follows, "Theseus: Stop. Give me your hand. I am your friend. / Herakles: I fear to stain your clothes with blood. / Theseus: Stain them, I don't care." End text.]

Herakles - Euripides (Tr. Anne Carson)

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[noteworthynotions]

“Someone has to leave first. This is a very old story. There is no other version of this story.”

Richard Siken, War of the Foxes

[champagnexowishes]

[authenticaussie]

God's strongest soldiers must prepare for the Worst war....(actually working on their fics because ao3 is down)

[tinyreviews]

Wordplay: The simple Infer

Latin

īnferre “to bring in, carry into, introduce”

in- “into”

ferre “to carry, bear”

Originally literal (to bring something in), then figurative: “to bring a conclusion into the mind.”

Proto-Indo-European

bher- “to carry, bear, bring”

Semantic drift: physical carrying → introducing information → drawing a conclusion. Inference is something you carry forward from premises.

Related words from bher-

bear (to carry, endure)

bring

burden

birth

transfer (carry across)

confer (carry together → discuss)

offer (carry toward)

suffer (carry from below → endure)

prefer (carry before → favor)

Fascinating 😏