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Re:To Live Your Best Life, Do Mathematics by 77pt77 on Thursday February 02, 2017 @02:46PM (#13553861)
You ingratiate a working philosopher.
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Re:To Live Your Best Life, Do Mathematics by bluebeard on Thursday February 02, 2017 @02:59PM (#13554007)
Ingratiate, that's a good word. Strangely opposed to the word ingrate.
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Re:To Live Your Best Life, Do Mathematics by ghurtado on Thursday February 02, 2017 @04:31PM (#13554847)
Both come from the latin "Gratia" (favor), but you can thank the extremely ambiguous prefix "in" for the confusion. Depending on the word it can act both as "into" as well as "without".
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Re:To Live Your Best Life, Do Mathematics by 77pt77 on Thursday February 02, 2017 @03:02PM (#13554039)
Never thought about that in those terms, but yes, it's interesting.
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