Nobody likes you when you're dead

[venta]

A new sheep, as invented by cardinalsin:

In the future, scientists will be able to resurrect human beings - but not using DNA. Instead, they will rebuild you from the collective memories of people who know you.

So: Please post a comment describing one thing you know about me. Preferably something interesting, but factual. One day internet archaeologists will use this information to bring me back to life, so make sure what you say is accurate!

Oh yeah, then post this to your journal. Go on, you know you want to.

Comments

[venta.livejournal.com]

definitely ept, ane and ert

Please tell me ane and ert are in there too!

[wimble.livejournal.com]

Ane is, but not in the appropriate sense. It's a dialectic variation of "one".

Ert, spectacularly, does appear to mean exactly what it should! And, although now obsolete, predates inert by 300 years.

I was going to snip this, but for your pleasure, I'll put it in.

Obs.
[prob. a. ON. erta to taunt, tease; but cf. ART v.1]

1. trans. a. To incite, urge on, encourage. Const. on, to, till, and to with inf. Also with on. b. To irritate, provoke.

c1325 Metr. Hom. Prol. 5 That thai mai her and hald in hert, Thinge that thaim til God mai ert. Ibid 19 Quen Crist cumes intil our hertes, To lef sin he us ertes.
c1400 Destr. Troy 4857 We haue ournyt hym with angur, ertid hym mykill. Ibid. 12326 To ert hym on exile euer of the londe.
c1440 Promp. Parv. 142 Ertyn, irrito.
1789 D. DAVIDSON Seasons 24 (Jam.) The herd..now and then Erts on the tir'd tike with ‘Sheep awa, a, a!’

absol. c1400 Destr. Troy 2725 Envy, at Euermore ertis to skathe.

2. intr. To be eager, prone; to hurry.

c1400 Destr. Troy 264 He ertide to an ende egerly fast.

Hence ertand ppl. a., pressing on, ambitious. erter, one who provokes. erting vbl. n., the action of the vb. ERT.

c1440 Gaw. & Gol. xxxi. Schir Gawyne..Egir, and ertand, and ryght anterus.
c1440 Promp. Parv. 142 Ertare, irritator, irritatrix. Ibid. 142 Ertynge, irritacio.