Me: "I feel the need... the need to sneed. Sneed isn't a word, but it should be. What's it mean?"So I was being grammatically incorrect. I should have said "I feel the need... the need to have sneed."
RX: "It's the past tense of the verb 'to snee'."
Me: "Ah. So, 'I snee; you snee; he/she/it snees; we..."
RX: "...have been sneed. It's from the Latin snevius, which is the act of separating fly poop from small grains of finely-ground black spices."
Me: "That was traditionally done by slave girls from the eastern Mediterranean, known as Sneviatrixes."
RX: "Ah, but by the later Republic, it had become a respected, and often well-paid profession."
Me: "Indeed. Tacitus even claimed that the favorite mistress of the emperor Claudius was reputed to have been a former Sneviatrix."
And with that, I'm off to the grocery store. (And yes, that's fairly typical for Roseholme Cottage dialog...)
Not bad, not bad at all, for a late rising oversleeper professional.
ReplyDeleteWhat DO you ladies first consume upon arising?
ReplyDeleteI WANT some!
Sneeding sounds like something that happens at a men's room in South Beach, and no..... penicillin cannot treat it!
ReplyDeleteSneed is not a verb, but a noun.
ReplyDeleteSneed is a political columnist for the Chicago Sun-Times. She has been sneeding for nearly 40 years.
http://www.suntimes.com/news/sneed/
Sneedin' Buddy
Isn't the feminine plural Sneviatrices?
ReplyDeleteSince I like to back winners, I took German instead of Latin in high school(besides, blitzkrieg scans better than fulminabelli), so my grammar might be a little off...
ReplyDeleteSneeding? We seem to have an overabundance of folks who have chosen that as a career path.
ReplyDeleteMy grammar was a bit off, but we didn't want to put her in a nursing home...
At least it's not a need for a thneed. BTW, you do have a seat cover for your bicycle right?
ReplyDeleteMy friend, Dr. Loyd Sneed is a proper gentleman in every way.
ReplyDeleteThat cover for the bicycle seat, BTW, is called a snood.
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P.S. OK. No. Not really, but it sounded good.
TW: Prentic. What an apprentic does. Of course.
Sneeds are what you plnant in the sprning.
ReplyDeleteHank
LOL- The coffee must have REALLY been good this morning!
ReplyDeleteBy a very strange coincidence, I just finished Tacitus Agricola/Germania last night. Didn't see anything in it about snee, but it might be in the Annals.
ReplyDeleteAll joking aside, there's a non-trivial chance that Catalus wrote some doggerel verse about something like this.
Well played.
Thinking about it, could "snee" be a bad translation (say, by someone with Latin skillz on the same level as mine) of the plural snii (pronounced "sn-ee-ee")?
ReplyDeleteThis might actually make sense if you're talking about lots of little Ancient world poop balls.
WV: "shicu". I really don't want to go there.
Now I'm wondering about the Sneetches and their activities...
ReplyDeleteOn second thought, let's not visit Camalot. 'Tis a silly place.
ReplyDeletewv: Cytin. A footnote on lyrics of rap songs.
Tirno beat me to it.
ReplyDeleteSpeaking of enriching one's vocabulary, I learned what "snoodling" was today via The Urban Dictionary. I was dared to look it up, and now I regret doing so.
ReplyDeleteEwww...
Perhaps you should John Steed, instead.
ReplyDeleteThat little exchange, Missy, is part and parcel of why I have such fits of mentis envy when I think of the conversations in your house.
ReplyDeleteSmart AND cute. :)