On 01/27/2015 11:48 PM, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Tue, 27 Jan 2015 23:07:15 +0100 (CET), Jan Sever wrote: >> P.S. Btw. poli in politics is from latin word polis = a place, not poly >> = many. But it's a nice parallel. > > Yes, and a tic is a nervous twitch, the blood sucking parasite is a tick, > but when did jokes have to be linguistically accurate?
Sorry, I didn't mean to spoil the joke, I really enjoyed it, I've not heard such a good joke recently. Thanks for redirecting me to the bugzilla. On 01/28/2015 1:24 AM, Thanasis wrote: > Both a greek words, not latin. > polis = city > poly = many/much Thanks for correcting, I don't know why I had fixed in mind that polis is from latin and poly from greek. But I thought polis should be a city and wondered why it wasn't (in latin). Jan Sever
