windhund116

I wake, reluctant.
Too cold to get out of bed.
But I need to pee.
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S1997

I watch the sun set. -
In my dream is a shadow.
It llngers then fades.

S2KRAY

Wear Depends, sleep on.

RMurphy

S1997

Cretans!

RMurphy

With a name like Murphy, you think I'm from Crete?

RMurphy

My "winter" haiku:

So California
Sun warms both sand and mountain
Your comforts, I love

Emil St-Hilaire

Maybe,he meant:"Crétins" ???

RMurphy

Maybe,he meant:"Crétins" ???
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I'm just teasing him. I know he meant cretin.

Now, a bit more interesting might have been to go one step further and call us cretinous troglodytes.

S1997

Pedants! I joke.
Actually I meant to type 'cretans', since I use that variant instead of the later variant, 'cretin' , that is borrowed from French. Other English speakers also use 'cretans' as a derogatory term meaning - like 'cretin' - 'maybe not so bright'. Some dictionaries agree. Most Etymologists note that the use of 'cretans' as a derogatory term goes back to Epimenides, who claimed that 'All Cretans are liars'. Since 'cretan' and 'cretin' are homophones, the forms have, pedants aside, come to share the derogatory usage (meaning something like 'stupid'), - while only 'cretan' can refer to a person from Crete.
Prescriptivists are slower to accept vocabulary change and semantic change than more usage based lexicographers; so dictionaries can differ. The two terms have separate etymologies, so some wordsmiths adamantly contend that the two terms are nonoverlapping