From: "John Atkinson" <johnmatkinson@Yahoo.com>
> WTF is nous? I kind of get it from context, but.
OK, here's the short verison, and then the long one.
SHORT VERSION Nous. Pronounced to rhyme with "House".
Strine dielect of English.
One possessed of Nous is not entirely a clue-free zone, nor a waste
of Oxygen. Someone with their fertiliser together.
As in http://www.marketingnous.com.au/export.htm
or http://www.nous.net.au/welcome.htm
Also found in Kiwiland, as in:
http://www.synapsis.co.nz/herald/Herald_2000/Herald_column_Nov_22_00.htm
"she has nous" etc.
LONG VERSION Common Australasian word for "competence", "Understanding" in the
Zen sense.
Buddha-Nature.
> From the Hellenistic Biblical Greek for "mind".
http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Acropolis/8392/secphil.html
(use of "nous" in the New Testament)
Quotes: (there are 3 Greek words translateable as "mind")..Dianoia is the part
of the intellect which engages in abstract reasoning and moral reflection, in
understanding, feeling and desiring..The second word, nous, refers to
philosophical reasoning and logic, the mind being used to make moral
judgements, understand and know the things of
--- Alan and Carmel Brain <aebrain@webone.com.au>
wrote:
> From the Hellenistic Biblical Greek for "mind".
Oddly enough (or rather, not that oddly), I recognized that context (comes of
reading too much theology lately) but dismissed it as a possibility for
Australian slang.
Didn't figure Diggers to be that well read.
> Oddly enough (or rather, not that oddly), I recognized
John said:
> Didn't figure Diggers to be that well read.
That's okay, John, I shouldn't imagine that most people connect
> At 11:13 PM -0400 5/21/02, Laserlight wrote:
Are you kidding. What MOS is more Byzantine in the Combat Arms than the Combat
Engineers. They actually have to use math to keep from hurting themselves
(unlike artillery who will only hurt someone else if they use the wrong math).
John puts the Bizarre into Byzantine Studies.
We'll call that a compliment.
> Ryan Gill wrote:
> At 11:13 PM -0400 5/21/02, Laserlight wrote:
From: "John Atkinson" <johnmatkinson@yahoo.com>
> --- Alan and Carmel Brain <aebrain@webone.com.au>
Given your Byzantine theme (pardon the pun) that's not surprising.
> but dismissed it as a possibility for
> Didn't figure Diggers to be that well read.
Good. Our Master Plan to Take Over The World proceeds
on-track then. First, we must get everyone else to underestimate
us.
The only guy to tumble to it appears to be Dr Paul Linebarger.
--- Alan and Carmel Brain <aebrain@webone.com.au>
wrote:
> Given your Byzantine theme (pardon the pun) that's
It's worse than that, but that's a whole 'nother
off-topic conversation.
> > but dismissed it as a possibility for
Depends on what you want us to underestimate you at. We've got a healthy
respect for your ah... many
sheep-related talents.
Sheep!! - we don't have many sheep down here, we just don't have a lot
of
people, so it just looks like there are a lot of sheep - now the the
Kiwi's have a lot of sheep (and velcro lined panel vans too) <Big Grin>
> At 01:47 22/05/02 -0700, John wrote:
That's New Zealanders, John;)
Cheers
> The locals obviously worship this icon and have forced young people
If I didn't love you so much revealng secrets like tht would get you summarily
executed!!
> At 10:10 24/05/02 +1000, Beth wrote:
I am indeed a fortunate man:)
Cheers
> At 12:43 PM +1000 23/5/2002, Derek Fulton wrote:
But we *did* put the "O" in merino
[note to the metropolitan types, a type of very woolly sheep]
> --- Derek Fulton <derekfulton@bigpond.com> wrote:
> John Atkinson wrote:
> > At 01:47 22/05/02 -0700, John wrote:
> All the same to me. . .
Or Virginia and Arkansas.
Or Virginia and New York, for that matter, from a Western US POV.
3B^2
> On Saturday, May 25, 2002, at 03:58 PM, John Atkinson wrote:
You mean like the USA and Cuba?
On Sat, 25 May 2002 16:06:05 -0700 "Brian Bilderback"
> <bbilderback@hotmail.com> writes:
> From the Los Angeleno - There's a difference between those?
Runs, grabs snorkel, dives off pier into water....
Gracias,
> Glenn M Wilson wrote:
> >Or Virginia and New York, for that matter, from a Western US POV.
> From the Los Angeleno - There's a difference between those?
Yeah. The Virginian talks with a slow, funny accent, the New Yorker talks with
a FAST, funny accent.
> Runs, grabs snorkel, dives off pier into water....
In LA water? I'll have the antibiotics lined up when you get out.
3B^2