Your replies bring me back to my youth -- the glorious 70s, long before the www , when German magazine "Pardon" first invented the "Phrasendreschmaschine" (= Phrase threshing machine/device ?). It was a bar of wood or carton , where you could put in sliders of wood or carton ( rotated by rectangular to the main bar), 5-7 pieces of them IIRC.
Each of it was assigned to certain grammar part of german sentences like Subject Verb Object Predicate Article Adjective Adverb etc -- mostly there were 5-7 of such slides.
The words written on them were predoninently Latin of Greece or words strongly "inspired" by these languages. By moving those sliders and combining the words freely
you "harvested" expressions which, hurled towards your oposing debaters caused
everything from slight bewilderment :roll: to "shock and awe"
hock: , --believe me ! ( BTW: would those eyes lie ?)
This was a very effective tools for having discussions moving "your way". :mrgreen:
Enjoy
Simplex
Siggi K.