To: madison10; BTerclinger; Daffynition
The USA is going full Noah’s Ark. It's more literal than people might suspect:
quarantine (n.)
1660s, "period a ship suspected of carrying disease is kept in isolation," from Italian quaranta giorni, literally "space of forty days," from quaranta "forty," from Latin quadraginta "forty,"
11 posted on
04/01/2020 5:30:20 PM PDT by
Ezekiel
(The pun is mightier than the s-word. Goy to the World!)
To: Ezekiel
“It’s more literal than people might suspect:
quarantine (n.)
1660s, “period a ship suspected of carrying disease is kept in isolation,” from Italian quaranta giorni, literally “space of forty days,” from quaranta “forty,” from Latin quadraginta ‘forty’.”
Heavens...did not know that.
To: Ezekiel
Yes, thank you for the helpful information.
45 posted on
04/01/2020 6:21:59 PM PDT by
OKSooner
(Hey Xi, do you see this here, you know what this means?)
To: Ezekiel
I see you have been deluged by the arc hives today!
66 posted on
04/01/2020 8:44:55 PM PDT by
Daffynition
(*Mega Dittoes and Mega Prayers* & :))
To: Ezekiel
New Jersey violent-film_noir producer Trenton Quarantino filmed a darkumentary about Noah’s mission.
85 posted on
04/02/2020 3:27:42 PM PDT by
goldbux
(No sufficiently rich interpreted language can represent its own semantics. — Alfred Tarski, 1936)
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