[Sca-cooks] He's back!

[Gorgeous Muiredach]

At 01:05 PM 12/30/2002 -0800, you wrote:
>If you behaved I would not know you from the next guy.  Hahahahahaha


<grin>

The thing is, as a non-native English speaker, I am still beffudled,
bedraggled, confusededed and dazed about the meaning of the word...

It took me a long while to realize that "good" was implied in the word,
since I've taken Webster's first definition of the word "to manage the
actions of (oneself) in a particular way" Which doesnt' imply good or
bad.  Besides, good and bad are *so* out of focus concepts....

As Webster says again, "to conduct oneself in a proper manner".  But what's
proper in many places is not quite so in others....  <shrug>

Looking up Merriam Webster online:
Main Entry: be·have
Pronunciation: bi-'hAv
Function: verb
Inflected Form(s): be·haved; be·hav·ing
Etymology: Middle English behaven, from be- + haven to have, hold
Date: 15th century
transitive senses
1 : to manage the actions of (oneself) in a particular way
2 : to conduct (oneself) in a proper manner
intransitive senses
1 : to act, function, or react in a particular way
2 : to conduct oneself properly

Cheers

Gorgeous Muiredach the Odd
Clan of Odds
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"You must deal with me as I think of myself" - J. Hockenberry