5 de mayo de 2006

Etymology of opportunity (Mi feet)

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your opportunity !
   mine?
   o p p o r t u n i t y
   oh
oppor
pporo
ppoor... poor!
tunity? tune?
   not me.
infinity?
   that is not enough focus
finity
   end
   is it end? or is it open?
nity
   nido?
nity, nudy? nudity?
   NO! nudity no!
nitido?
   DEPENDS
[ni ti ni do]
   ni tú ni yo
opportunity
   what to do with you?
   and without me?
integrity?
   that maybe close.

opportunity (13c.), from L. opportunitatem (nom. opportunitas) "fitness, suitableness, favorable time, "from opportunus (see opportune).

ah! I see
   fitness?
I hurt my foot
   favorable time?
in my mind...
   in my wiliness
   what the hell is freedom?
   now it is about being me.
I AM
   hello !!!!! anybody there, there, there [eco sound]

from L. opportunus "favorable", from the phrase ob portum veniens "coming toward a port, "in reference to the wind, from ob "to, toward" + portus "harbor."Opportunist (1881) and opportunism (1870) both borrow from It. opportunismo, a word in It. politics, later applied in Fr. to Gambetta (1881) and then generally in Eng. to any who seek to profit from the prevailing circumstances.

coming toward a port?
  an other emigrant!
is he/she legal or illegal?
  depends of the wind (and of the focus)
well, I am not British!
opportunity,
  you are my headache
poor integrity,
It is time to celebrate mediocrity.

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