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<blockquote data-quote="Deep Purple" data-source="post: 3224419" data-attributes="member: 17"><p>Strange, but your "wordplay joke" strongly resembles just plain ol' hair-splitting. Dwight?</p><p></p><p><img src="https://media4.giphy.com/media/LJuFwKdPBSjxS/200.gif" alt="dwight schrute GIF" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></p><p></p><p>But I guess two can play. <em>Ruminant</em> as applied to browsing and grazing animals was a secondary meaning of the Latin root <em>rumina</em>re, which means "to chew the cud." But the word wasn't applied literally to what we now call with cud-chewing or ruminant animals until around 1660. It's primary application from the 1530s was as an idiomatic expression meaning to "reflect deeply" or "turn over in one's mind," possibly in discussion with others.</p><p></p><p>We see this even in Shakespeare:</p><p></p><p><em>"Ruminates like an hostess that hath no arithmetic but her brain to set down her reckoning."</em></p><p>--Troilus and Cressida: Act 3 , Scene 3, Lines 265-66</p><p></p><p>A modern parallel might be "Hit me," which is primarily used idiomatically to mean "Deal me a card" -- not literally as in "Strike my person."</p><p></p><p>An aside: My grandfather was a lifelong cattleman. Knew more about cattle than perhaps any two men I've ever known. I don't think he'd ever even heard the word <em>ruminant</em>.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Deep Purple, post: 3224419, member: 17"] Strange, but your "wordplay joke" strongly resembles just plain ol' hair-splitting. Dwight? [IMG alt="dwight schrute GIF"]https://media4.giphy.com/media/LJuFwKdPBSjxS/200.gif[/IMG] But I guess two can play. [I]Ruminant[/I] as applied to browsing and grazing animals was a secondary meaning of the Latin root [I]rumina[/I]re, which means "to chew the cud." But the word wasn't applied literally to what we now call with cud-chewing or ruminant animals until around 1660. It's primary application from the 1530s was as an idiomatic expression meaning to "reflect deeply" or "turn over in one's mind," possibly in discussion with others. We see this even in Shakespeare: [I]"Ruminates like an hostess that hath no arithmetic but her brain to set down her reckoning."[/I] --Troilus and Cressida: Act 3 , Scene 3, Lines 265-66 A modern parallel might be "Hit me," which is primarily used idiomatically to mean "Deal me a card" -- not literally as in "Strike my person." An aside: My grandfather was a lifelong cattleman. Knew more about cattle than perhaps any two men I've ever known. I don't think he'd ever even heard the word [I]ruminant[/I]. [/QUOTE]
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