doublets / langue / traffic

[Geoff Bannister]

--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com, "Catlady (Rita Prince Winston)" <catlady at ...> 
wrote:
>
> Geoff (previously):
> <http://groups.yahoo.com/group/HPFGU-OTChatter/message/36425>:
> 
> << But doublets exist. They were a close-fitting jacket worn by men
> between the 15th and 17th centuries. You have possibly heard of
> 'doublet and hose'? >>

Catlady: 
> An earlier phase of this conversation caused me to look up the
> etymology of 'doublet' (the garment) and it was so named because it
> had two layers of fabric. Doesn't that mean a lining? Which is not a
> very unique feature of that garment.

Geoff:
The type of doublet I've seen in Shakespearian costume dramas and 
such like often have vertical slits in them to reveal the material underneath 
which does make them different,

Catlady:  
> I'm rather ignorant about Christianity, but it occurred to me that for
> the celebration of Pentecost, pastor may have *intended* to imply
> something revolutionary, a whole new *kind* of language. Because isn't
> Pentecost when the Holy Spirit descended on the Apostles and they
> started speaking in a language that came from God?

Geoff:
Not at Pentecost. The extraordinary thing to the listeners was that 
the group of disciples, who included in their number several relatively 
uneducated Galileans, suddenly acquired the ability to speak to the 
polyglot group of people attending the Passover in Jerusalem in 
their own languages.

"Speaking in tongues" - a gift from God to speak a heavenly language 
still happens today.
 
> Carol:
> <http://groups.yahoo.com/group/HPFGU-OTChatter/message/36428>:
> 
> << I could have sworn that in the U.S., where we drive on the
> right-hand side of the road, the "inside lane" would be the one
> nearest to facing traffic, IOW, the left-hand lane, and farthest from
> the shoulder or sidewalk, which abuts the right-hand lane (or,
> sometimes, the right-turn lane). >>

Geoff:
Perhaps I can sum it up most concisely by saying that, to a UK driver, 
the inside lane is the slow lane and the outside lane is the fast lane 
which hopefully gets round the problem of those strange people who 
still persist on driving on the right-hand side.
:-)