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jorge santos garcia
Joined: 06 Jan 2008
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Location: Évora
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Posted: May 14, 2008 05:01 Post subject: Re: Self collected |
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Hello all
My english doesn't allow mw to understand some 'nuances' of the language, but I wonder....
.... if 'self-collected' means that a specimen was collected by itself (I believe without any help, our help, wich is rather strange), then...
... 'self-obsessed' means that the obssession is obsessed by itself??
... 'self-service' means the service (food) serves to itself ?? or by itself??
... 'selfish' means that a fish is .... ??
It's funny to play with words....
I like 'personally collected'. It's almost a direct translation from my luanguage, but 'self-collected' is easily understood as well. I've never learned the word im my english lessons, I just heard of it in the mineral world, but I understood is meaning without someone's explanation.
So.... 'self-collected' or 'personally colected', they are both very understandable.
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Konstantinos Ch.
Joined: 12 May 2008
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Posted: May 14, 2008 06:41 Post subject: Re: Self collected |
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Hi there!
Although my English is bad, I'll try to answer:
-self-service means one have to serve oneself.If the term was self-served,then one would understand that the food is served by itself.
-selfish-no fishes here (nice one btw... eheheeh) .Self + ish = selfish were -ish is a terminoelement that gives the noun the property the first component indicates.
-self-obsessed -refers to a person, so the person is obsessed by herself or himself. Similarly, self-collected (which refers to specimen), means that the specimen is collected by itself, all on its own, so the specimen has formed an one-piece collection which consists of itself.
Cheers!
-Kostas. |
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John S. White
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Location: Stewartstown, Pennsylvania, USA
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Posted: May 14, 2008 07:13 Post subject: Re: Self collected |
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I think I would like to self-close this thread, it is getting silly _________________ John S. White
aka Rondinaire |
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Gail
Joined: 21 Feb 2008
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Location: Texas, Lone Star State.
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Posted: May 14, 2008 08:36 Post subject: Re: Self collected |
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Hear Hear!
Yawn....ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZzzzzzzzzzzzz _________________ Minerals you say? Why yes, I'll take a dozen or so... |
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Konstantinos Ch.
Joined: 12 May 2008
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Posted: May 14, 2008 09:13 Post subject: Re: Self collected |
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I'll agree with John.... |
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Les Presmyk
Joined: 06 Dec 2007
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Location: Gilbert, AZ
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Posted: May 14, 2008 09:17 Post subject: Re: Self collected |
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What??? I thought it was finally starting to make some sense. Oh well, on to bigger and better things. |
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Carles Curto
Joined: 14 Sep 2006
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Location: Barcelona
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Posted: Mar 18, 2009 10:20 Post subject: self collected |
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As my english itself (collected?)
I beg your pardon. |
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