But the OED has nothing, so...
Vigilantibus non dormientibus jura subveniunt.
—Nous disons en allemand : le guerre, le mort, le lune, alors que 'soleil' et 'amour' sont du sexe féminin : la soleil, la amour. La vie est neutre.
—La vie ? Neutre ? C'est très joli, et surtout très logique.
—Nous disons en allemand : le guerre, le mort, le lune, alors que 'soleil' et 'amour' sont du sexe féminin : la soleil, la amour. La vie est neutre.
—La vie ? Neutre ? C'est très joli, et surtout très logique.
As a lover of linguistics it makes me sad that the etymology of "jism" is unknown.
- 10/07/2012 01:00:18 AM
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Re: As a lover of linguistics it makes you sad that the etymology of "jism" is unknown.
- 10/07/2012 01:45:52 AM
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Doesn't it mean something in Hindi? *NM*
- 10/07/2012 01:53:18 AM
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Well, it could mean lots of things in lots of languages, but that doesn't help.
- 10/07/2012 01:29:07 PM
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Um, does jism in English mean ejaculate? If I remember my Hindi correctly, jism=body. *NM*
- 11/07/2012 01:12:42 AM
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Yes, as in "I got jism all over the sheets because I pulled out to come on her ass and missed." *NM*
- 11/07/2012 01:17:55 AM
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to know it means that. 
at your example
Etymonline has a theory.
- 10/07/2012 08:38:36 AM
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I read a great article that utterly demolishes that hypothesis.
- 10/07/2012 01:24:40 PM
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I thought it sounded a little shaky.
- 10/07/2012 06:15:05 PM
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I can't find the better article, but there is one that highlights the issue
- 10/07/2012 08:10:54 PM
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I'm sorry to disappoint, but I'm fairly certain that sheep do have a pharyngeal reflex.
- 10/07/2012 10:28:41 AM
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Well you've obviously never tried to...wait, let's just pretend I didn't say that.
- 10/07/2012 01:30:12 PM
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or a vet. or anyone who studied A&P
- 10/07/2012 02:03:44 PM
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You're both really overthinking it. *NM*
- 10/07/2012 04:27:51 PM
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Next they'll be saying that Dick-in-Mouth Disease isn't real 
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- 10/07/2012 09:04:49 PM
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