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Last Updated: 6/16/2009

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Gender: Male
Status: In a Relationship
Age: 25
Sign: Libra

City: North Hollywood
State: California
Country: US

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La Tua Cant.. (2)
Nimbvs (1)
Wednesday, April 25, 2007 

Current mood:  recumbent
Category: Life
Only two:

sluice -- an artificial channel for conducting water, often fitted with a gate (sluice gate) at the upper end for regulating the flow. (http://www.dictionary.com, def #1)

related in etymology to "exclude" (in this case, water)

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Somnambule-->somnambulist-->somnambulism -- sleepwalking

how it breaks down: somn(us) sleep + ambul(are) to walk

--> I just noticed that I have poet written up there in the header. I really haven't posted much poetry lately. Well, I have a new poem in progress. I'll post it when it's done (or at least in the late stages). Hopefully soon.


Currently listening:
Dizzy's Business
By The Dizzy Gillespie All-Star Big Band
Release date: 26 September, 2006
15:49
 
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La Tua Cantante

 
I didn't know there was a translation in English for Sonambula. I think thats how it's spelled in Spanish. COOL! I have used that word, a lot not knowing there was an English equivalent. Sweet.
 
Posted by La Tua Cantante on Wednesday, April 25, 2007 - 16:41
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Nimbvs

 
Sluice, I knew that.  I would have said something dumber, though, like "a water tube or pipe".

And Somnambule, that's an easy one.  It's the spelled the same in French.  Sleep (in French, it's "sommeil", in Spanish "sueño"), plus ambulate, which really means, "to walk around" (I think it's a real word, anyway), like "ambulance".  Actually, a somnambule is a noun, so, it means "sleepwalker": ambula in somnus.

 
Posted by Nimbvs on Thursday, April 26, 2007 - 00:53
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Nimbvs

 
or "ambula in somnus sui"
 
Posted by Nimbvs on Thursday, April 26, 2007 - 00:54
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