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do you know what mongy, I've never noticed the "fall" component of infallibility before just now, thank you for this food for thought
(, Mon 13 Apr 2026, 18:29, archived)

"late 15th century: from French infaillible or late Latin infallibilis, from in- ‘not’ + Latin fallere ‘deceive’"
makes you think, dunnit
(, Mon 13 Apr 2026, 18:29, archived)
maintainence, infailability

(, Mon 13 Apr 2026, 18:40, archived)
tell me more
in the meantime, I like this:
"It ultimately derives from the Latin phrase manu tenere, meaning "to hold in the hand"
(, Mon 13 Apr 2026, 18:43, archived)

a word in the hand is worth two in the book
(, Mon 13 Apr 2026, 18:43, archived)
meantime, a time in which I mean, er

(, Mon 13 Apr 2026, 19:00, archived)
Leave mean time alone!!!

(, Mon 13 Apr 2026, 20:14, archived)