! I spend quite a bit of time reading about the Octroi of the VOC - its document of establishment. I've also run across martelen and marteling in Dutch as punishment or torture, which made me wonder if the word "martinet" came from the same root at all. ...but when I tried to look that up my free dictionary site redirected me to google ads for match.com that said "Meet Naughty Girls - Free. 1,409 Bad Girls are within your Area. Easy & Free to Join!" so I didn't feel like carrying on.
Supposedly martinet comes from the name of the eponymous 17th century Inspector General of France ("one of the first great drill masters of modern times" according to the Key of All Knowledge). Martelen and marteler both share a root in Middle French martel "hammer" (a corruption of Latin martulus "idem."). But there the resemblance ends, since the extended meaning of the French verb (and the usage in which I first encountred the term) is "to pound [home]", e.g. marteler le message.
i probably would have said something like "mettre un plaster" or "un pansement" if i was feeling proper. i miss how at my old work i had one coworker who was really fun and laid-back who said things like "plaster" and "balayeuse" where my uptight no-fun coworker said "pansement" and "aspirateur"
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...but when I tried to look that up my free dictionary site redirected me to google ads for match.com that said "Meet Naughty Girls - Free.
1,409 Bad Girls are within your Area. Easy & Free to Join!" so I didn't feel like carrying on.
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Any thoughts on structuralism?
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