Posted on 02/10/2009 12:42:17 PM PST by Grumpybutt
No, I think it’s an old Saxon or Celtic word, can’t recall which, which just happens to be the same as the “dead” which means “lifeless”. It’s an intensifier, making the adjective to which it is attached absolute, exact.
O.E. dead, from P.Gmc. *dauthaz, from PIE *dheu-. Meaning "insensible" is first attested c.1225. Of places, meaning "inactive, dull," it is recorded from 1581. Used from 16c. in adj. sense of "utter, absolute, quite." Dead heat is from 1796. Dead reckoning may be from nautical abbreviation ded. ("deduced") in log books, but it also fits dead (adj.) in the sense of "unrelieved, absolute.
However, most uses of "dead" as an intensifier have some whacky folk theory that is wrong, so I would not be surprised if the "deduced" theory is wrong, too. Dead reckoning could simply be "exact" reckoning, not "deduced", like "dead eye" and "dead right".
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These things are always garbage filled. Even the ones that deal with the 1950s!
As for thatched roofs. Good quality thatch is a great roof and so much cooler than the asphalt shingles of today.
Most of this is true!
I don’t know about the 16th century, but in the early America, red was a barn color because blood could be added to white pigment...
Taking a bath in early america was a big deal. Go out and pump enough water to fill a tub, but first warm it up in the fireplace or on an old wood burning stove, carry to tub, add until 1/2 full and then add cold water to make it just warm enough so as not to burn...On my grandma’s farm we were lucky and had a pump house attached to the kitchen. Circa early 1900’s to 1940’s. But you sure had to lug a lot of water to fill a tub.. . Dad was born in 1901, tub baths were few and far between, but that didn’t mean they didn’t wash. In nursing its called a PTA bath if short of staff...Stands for Pit, T!ts and a$$
You are apparently sadly misinformed about organ procurement practices in the 21st century. Since 2001, more organ donors have been living donors than cadaveric (dead). Most are related to the recipient, but more and more are directed donations from unrelated persons. Furthermore, with advances in organ preservation and harvesting, Donation after Cardiac Death (DCD) is the most common method of cadaveric organ harvest. Brain death is still used as a criteria, but much less often than in the 70's and 80's.
Read a little and broaden your mind. It's fun.
It also looks very cool! Modern "thatch" substitutes are safe and attractive. And awfully expensive!
“Brain death is still used as a criteria”
I read a good bit but thanks for the ad hominem anyway.
Did I say that the only organ donations are from brain dead donors?
No.
Did I deny that living people donate organs? No.
Do we indeed use the brain death definition as justification for harvesting organs? Your own words say that we do.
Which was my point, my sole point. We do not use cardiac death exclusively to define death. Back in 1500 they did use it exclusively because they didn’t have machines to register brain activity.
We do harvest organs from brain dead but cardiac alive people. That we also do organ transplants with from the other sorts of donors you listed was irrelevant to my point.
So I didn’t mention it.
But not mentioning something is not the same as denying something.
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