X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: f996b,514ff986557038e X-Google-Attributes: gidf996b,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2003-05-01 03:57:54 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!surfnet.nl!news.tudelft.nl!tudelft.nl!not-for-mail From: Leon Planken Newsgroups: alt.ascii-art Subject: Re: Nerd Boy, episode 375 Date: Thu, 1 May 2003 10:57:53 +0000 (UTC) Organization: ADoMaholics Anonymous Lines: 31 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: vulcanus.its.tudelft.nl X-Trace: news.tudelft.nl 1051786673 28126 130.161.36.97 (1 May 2003 10:57:53 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@news.tudelft.nl NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 1 May 2003 10:57:53 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: slrn/0.9.7.4 (Linux) Xref: archiver1.google.com alt.ascii-art:22961 I failed miserably to keep a straight face when I read that on Wed, 30 Apr 2003 16:32:40 +0200, Rainer Rosenthal wrote: > In case I'd like to grasp the "deep content" here, maybe it > would be better to know the meaning of weblogs as well as > an adequate re-description of what my Oxford Dictionary says: > > rant 1 v. use bombastic language; > declaim, recite theatrically; preach > noisily. 2 n. piece of ranting [Du.] > > where [Du.] is explained as Du. = Dutch. > > Hmmm... whith a little help from my friends??? I don't know any word in Dutch which looks like 'rant' and has anything to do with it. My Penguin English Dictionary says: 1 rant /rant/ vi to talk in a noisy, excited, or declamatory manner ~ vt to declaim bombastically [obs D ranten, randen] - ranter n, rantingly adv 2 rant n (a) bombastic extravagant speech 'obs' means obsolete - so the word is no longer in use, which explains why I can't find it in the dictionary. Leon (aka Oliphaunt) -- I really didn't foresee the Internet. But then, neither did the computer industry. Not that that tells us very much, of course - the computer industry didn't even foresee that the century was going to end. -- Douglas Adams (1952 - 2001)