I was on the MCHY forums this morning and came across some folks that
were "confused" about what was going on in a particular thread. Since
the whole thread was pretty much nonsense I thought about going off, as I often do, and creating some very complicated etymological description of the word confused:
That being the co-joining of the two words "con" and "fused" being, in other words, the bringing together of a number of undesirable elements (con), and attaching them together (fused). In this fashion one can describe the state known as "confused" as being an amalgamation of bad thoughts or concepts that leave one incapable of coherent thought.
Please keep in mind that the above is utter bullshit.
There was another word I was going to defile but I can't remember what it was. Just as well, really.
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Defile
from the compounds of de- and file.
The preposition de- means from, usually equating a derivative of something else.
The noun file means a folder, cabinet, or other container in which papers, letters, etc., are arranged in convenient order for storage or reference or a collection of papers, records, etc., arranged in convenient order or a line of persons or things arranged one behind another or one of the vertical lines of squares on a chessboard or a list or roll or a string or wire on which papers are strung for preservation and reference.
Therefore, to defile means to come from a file, folder, cabinet, or other container that holds papers, which also might come from a collection of papers, records, etc. arranged in convenient order possibly from a list or roll or a string or wore pm which papers are strung for preservation and reference possibly from a line of people or things arranged in a line, possibly along the line from a chess board.
ergo, ego epsilon elk.
translation:
therefore, I am a small elk.
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