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really? it is an everyday Greek word.
anthropo=man (e.g. anthropology), phagy=to eat (e.g. geophagy, eating clay).
PS: your cannibalism and mine look a bit different.
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Luc Pattyn wrote: it is an everyday Greek word.
Hmm, perhaps it was an everyday activity too...
"It is a remarkable fact that despite the worldwide expenditure of perhaps US$50 billion since 1990, and the efforts of tens of thousands of scientists worldwide, no human climate signal has yet been detected that is distinct from natural variation."
Bob Carter, Research Professor of Geology, James Cook University, Townsville
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How do you think the ancient Greeks became extinct?
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The didn't become extinct, they just updated themselves.
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"Optimism of Voltaire is to disparage luster with one article."(11)
There you go.
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panglossian = Blindly or naively optimistic. [After Pangloss, an optimist in Candide, a satire by Voltaire.]
disparage = pan
luster = gloss
one = i
article = an
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Have you ever read Candide?
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Is that Science Fiction or Fantasy?
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No. It is Voltaire's satire's Article.
With Regards,
Kasson
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It is a satire on French Society.
It tells the tale of a man who was indocrinated with optimism by his mentor, Dr Pangloss, but who then travels around and is dispirited and becomes a realist.
It was written in the 1700's but could easily apply to today.
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Nope, probably too deep for me. I'd only just heard of Voltaire before tonight 
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Luster doesn't mean shine...
From the OED:
luster[^]
compared to
lustre[^]
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Freudian Slip!
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Dalek Dave wrote: Have you ever read Candide?
Honestly?
"It is a remarkable fact that despite the worldwide expenditure of perhaps US$50 billion since 1990, and the efforts of tens of thousands of scientists worldwide, no human climate signal has yet been detected that is distinct from natural variation."
Bob Carter, Research Professor of Geology, James Cook University, Townsville
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Not in the original French, to be sure, but it is quite good.
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I think it might be about time to ban New Zealanders from this competition because they have the advantage of having been awake all day where as those of us who live in the civilised part of the world are still rising from our slumber. Also they do unseemly things to sheep. OK the real reason is one of them is to good at it.
P.S. I still want to see an American version with words such as burglarization.
The Whiteboard - Surely the most remarkable invention ever?
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Wednesday night is wine tasting night, the brain cells are more enlightened
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and the sheep are more nervous.
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Pompeyboy3 wrote: I still want to see an American version
We had one today!
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Cultivation?!
I just read "we must cultivate our garden" and this comes to my mind.
No one is guessing, so here is my guess.
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Footless
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Yes, all are "Stumped" 
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Think of the money we are saving on shoes though.
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prophalactic?
"It is a remarkable fact that despite the worldwide expenditure of perhaps US$50 billion since 1990, and the efforts of tens of thousands of scientists worldwide, no human climate signal has yet been detected that is distinct from natural variation."
Bob Carter, Research Professor of Geology, James Cook University, Townsville
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