For both of you are birds of selfsame feather. --- King Henry VI, part III: III, iii

BASSANIO:
In my school-days, when I had lost one shaft,
I shot his fellow of the self-same flight
The self-same way with more advised watch,
To find the other forth, and by adventuring both
I oft found both: I urge this childhood proof,
Because what follows is pure innocence.

------- Merchant of Venice: I, i

i've had a thing for the word [SelfSame]
------ enough so that i got excited when i saw....

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/seltsame in

(Wunderweib) ------ 10 seltsame Dinge, die Männer anturnen
Mann anturnen, aber wie?

Mit diesen 10 seltsamen Dingen machst du ihn RICHTIG heiß!
.Jul 8, 2020

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/seltsamen

On Sunday, April 23, 2023 at 11:34:55 AM UTC-7, henh...@gmail.com wrote:
> For both of you are birds of selfsame feather. --- King Henry VI, part III: III, iii
>
>
> BASSANIO:
> In my school-days, when I had lost one shaft,
> I shot his fellow of the self-same flight
> The self-same way with more advised watch,
> To find the other forth, and by adventuring both
> I oft found both: I urge this childhood proof,
> Because what follows is pure innocence.
>
> ------- Merchant of Venice: I, i
>
>
> i've had a thing for the word [SelfSame]
> ------ enough so that i got excited when i saw....
>
>
> https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/seltsame in
>
> (Wunderweib) ------ 10 seltsame Dinge, die Männer anturnen
> Mann anturnen, aber wie?
>
> Mit diesen 10 seltsamen Dingen machst du ihn RICHTIG heiß!
> .Jul 8, 2020
>
> https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/seltsamen

Weird! = seltsam
Which word now has a nonce meaning as well, as in _The WEIRDEST people in the World_ a very interesting book on psychology, economics, sociology, cultural change, etc., even possible change in human nature. It's an acronym from Western, Educated, Industrialized, Rich, Democratic. This European cultural complex all took off between 1054 and 1075. The author makes a very interesting and strong case for his thesis:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_WEIRDest_People_in_the_World

p.s. seltsam is related to selten (seldom, rare) but not self-same
_

Btraven wrote:
> On Sunday, April 23, 2023 at 11:34:55 AM UTC-7, henh...@gmail.com wrote:
>> For both of you are birds of selfsame feather. --- King Henry VI, part III: III, iii
>>
>>
>> BASSANIO:
>> In my school-days, when I had lost one shaft,
>> I shot his fellow of the self-same flight
>> The self-same way with more advised watch,
>> To find the other forth, and by adventuring both
>> I oft found both: I urge this childhood proof,
>> Because what follows is pure innocence.
>>
>> ------- Merchant of Venice: I, i
>>
>>
>> i've had a thing for the word [SelfSame]
>> ------ enough so that i got excited when i saw....
>>
>>
>> https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/seltsame in
>>
>> (Wunderweib) ------ 10 seltsame Dinge, die Männer anturnen
>> Mann anturnen, aber wie?
>>
>> Mit diesen 10 seltsamen Dingen machst du ihn RICHTIG heiß!
>> .Jul 8, 2020
>>
>> https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/seltsamen
>
> Weird! = seltsam
> Which word now has a nonce meaning as well, as in _The WEIRDEST people in the World_ a very interesting book on psychology, economics, sociology, cultural change, etc., even possible change in human nature. It's an acronym from Western, Educated, Industrialized, Rich, Democratic. This European cultural complex all took off between 1054 and 1075. The author makes a very interesting and strong case for his thesis:
>
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_WEIRDest_People_in_the_World
>
> p.s. seltsam is related to selten (seldom, rare) but not self-same
> _
Was Paganini a pagan? He could play the violin like the devil himself,
rising amidst tombstones in a graveyard.
I'm constantly reminded of Saint-Saëns' Danse Macabre;
https://tinyurl.com/lhp52p5
Perhaps Julian the Apostate emperor of old Rome could hear the same
music from his future, played on instruments that he never knew about.
Ed