Hello Bee, so that means that the English and French needed to be tortured to get them to work? :=) BTW. look for the background of German "Reise", Reisige, Reisläufer. Regards Georg
7:33 AM, February 26, 2009
Anonymous said...
That is what ipods are for; ipod and sleep, no coffee.
mike casidy
9:50 PM, February 26, 2009
... the origin of the word “travel”?
It goes back to the Old French word travail “suffering or painful effort, trouble” (12c.), from travailler “to toil, labor,” originally “to trouble, torture,” from Vulgar Latin tripaliare “to torture,” from tripalium (in Literary Latin trepalium) “instrument of torture.”
Next time you fly from the East- to the Westcoast, suffering from cheap airline coffee and dull movies, try to imagine you'd have taken the trip 200 years ago...
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Incidentally, the word for travel in Hindi is pronounced "suffer". ^_^
11:22 PM, February 25, 2009
Hello Bee,
so that means that the English and
French needed to be tortured to get
them to work? :=)
BTW. look for the background of German "Reise", Reisige, Reisläufer.
Regards
Georg
7:33 AM, February 26, 2009
That is what ipods are for; ipod and sleep, no coffee.
mike casidy
9:50 PM, February 26, 2009