 |
|
12-07-2011, 12:42 PM
|
#1
|
|
Feedback Score: 0 reviews
Join Date: Nov 2011
Location: Chantilly, VA
Posts: 50
Liked 1 Times on 1 Posts
Likes Given: 9
|
About those big jugs...it's OK to call a carboy a JUG
|
|
Wikipedia says....The word carboy is from the Persian qarabah (قرابه), from Arabic qarraba, "big jug".[3]
It's OK to call a car boy a jug. this is America, we don't need to adapt words from the Arabs.
|
|
|
|
12-07-2011, 12:45 PM
|
#2
|
|
Feedback Score: 0 reviews
Join Date: Oct 2010
Location: Cochrane, Ontario, CANADA
Posts: 1,512
Liked 10 Times on 10 Posts
Likes Given: 4
|
Quote:
Originally Posted by mmead
Wikipedia says....The word carboy is from the Persian qarabah (قرابه), from Arabic qarraba, "big jug".[3]
It's OK to call a car boy a jug. this is America, we don't need to adapt words from the Arabs.
|
Living languages change - adopt and adapt.
B
__________________
Manager & Head Brewer
Swan Lane Brewery
|
|
|
|
|
12-07-2011, 12:50 PM
|
#3
|
|
Feedback Score: 0 reviews
Join Date: Jun 2008
Location: Nashville, TN
Posts: 8,526
Liked 24 Times on 24 Posts
Likes Given: 13
|
Better not learn any math, either. Or if you do, stick to roman numerals and don't learn anything more complicated than multiplication.
|
|
|
|
|
12-07-2011, 12:53 PM
|
#4
|
|
Feedback Score: 0 reviews
Join Date: Oct 2011
Location: Knoxville, TN
Posts: 38
|
Quote:
Originally Posted by bernerbrau
Better not learn any math, either. Or if you do, make sure it's roman numerals and you don't learn anything more complicated than multiplication.
|
Or just go straight to Calculus, since that was invented by Gottfried Leibniz, a German (you know, that country that makes beer that a lot of people like) |
|
|
|
|
12-07-2011, 12:54 PM
|
#5
|
|
Moderator
Feedback Score: 0 reviews
Join Date: Feb 2008
Location: Reed City, MI
Posts: 18,913
Liked 796 Times on 600 Posts
Likes Given: 370
|
Speaking of Big Jugs, there was this college girl at the Ferris State hockey game on Saturday who had some. She was wearing a very small, tight tank top, and just loved to emphasize them too. I'm not making this up.
She actually BOUNCED her way up the stairs to reach her seat. Let me clarify. She PURPOSEFULLY bounced her way up the stairs. And later I caught her out of the corner of my eye making them bounce ridiculously in her seat!
It's too bad I am am gentleman, or I would have gotten a picture to share.
So my point is, picking out a single word to practice Etymological Jihad on, is kind of douchy. The English language is made from words from all over the world dating back many centuries. Carboy is the accepted word for a fairly specific style of vessel used for during the fermentation of drink.
Big Jug is a very broad definition that could mean anything that holds liquid.
|
|
|
|
|
12-07-2011, 12:57 PM
|
#6
|
|
Feedback Score: 0 reviews
Join Date: Jun 2008
Location: Nashville, TN
Posts: 8,526
Liked 24 Times on 24 Posts
Likes Given: 13
|
Quote:
Originally Posted by falconnuke
Or just go straight to Calculus, since that was invented by Gottfried Leibniz, a German (you know, that country that makes beer that a lot of people like)
|
Oh yeah, that reminds me, most of our modern technology was borrowed or built on stuff we borrowed from the Nazis.
Point being if we avoided everything just because we didn't like its origin, we'd all be living like paupers right now. |
|
|
|
|
12-07-2011, 12:58 PM
|
#7
|
|
Post Hoc Ergo Propter Hoc
Feedback Score: 0 reviews
Join Date: Dec 2007
Location: "Detroitish" Michigan
Posts: 40,708
Liked 2428 Times on 1496 Posts
Likes Given: 3312
|
Oh...my....god....some people are just idiots....
__________________
Like my snazzy new avatar? Get Sons of Zymurgy swag, here, and brew with the best.
Revvy's one of the cool reverends. He has a Harley and a t-shirt that says on the back "If you can read this, the bitch was Raptured. - Madman
I gotta tell ya, just between us girls, that Revvy is HOT. Very tall, gorgeous grey hair and a terrific smile. He's very good looking in person, with a charismatic personality... he drives like a ****ing maniac! - YooperBrew
|
|
|
|
|
12-07-2011, 12:59 PM
|
#8
|
|
Feedback Score: 0 reviews
Join Date: Jun 2008
Location: Nashville, TN
Posts: 8,526
Liked 24 Times on 24 Posts
Likes Given: 13
|
Quote:
Originally Posted by Homercidal
Speaking of Big Jugs, there was this college girl at the Ferris State hockey game on Saturday who had some. She was wearing a very small, tight tank top, and just loved to emphasize them too. I'm not making this up.
She actually BOUNCED her way up the stairs to reach her seat. Let me clarify. She PURPOSEFULLY bounced her way up the stairs. And later I caught her out of the corner of my eye making them bounce ridiculously in her seat!
|
Giving rise to the saying, "check out the carboys on her!" |
|
|
|
|
12-07-2011, 12:59 PM
|
#9
|
|
Feedback Score: 0 reviews
Join Date: Oct 2010
Location: Cochrane, Ontario, CANADA
Posts: 1,512
Liked 10 Times on 10 Posts
Likes Given: 4
|
Quote:
Originally Posted by bernerbrau
Giving rise to the saying, "check out the carboys on her!"
|
OK, so I actually burst out laughing! Hahaha!!
B
EDIT: Every time I see carboys I'll think of beer brewing! LOL!
__________________
Manager & Head Brewer
Swan Lane Brewery
|
|
|
|
|
12-07-2011, 01:01 PM
|
#10
|
|
Post Hoc Ergo Propter Hoc
Feedback Score: 0 reviews
Join Date: Dec 2007
Location: "Detroitish" Michigan
Posts: 40,708
Liked 2428 Times on 1496 Posts
Likes Given: 3312
|
I can't resist turning this troll thread into something fun...
__________________
Like my snazzy new avatar? Get Sons of Zymurgy swag, here, and brew with the best.
Revvy's one of the cool reverends. He has a Harley and a t-shirt that says on the back "If you can read this, the bitch was Raptured. - Madman
I gotta tell ya, just between us girls, that Revvy is HOT. Very tall, gorgeous grey hair and a terrific smile. He's very good looking in person, with a charismatic personality... he drives like a ****ing maniac! - YooperBrew
|
|
|
|
| Thread Tools |
|
|
| Display Modes |
 Linear Mode
|
|
|
|
.gif-1367621329.gif)
