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Did you know that the word "tangle" is:
mid-14c., tanglen, "encumber, enmesh, knit together confusedly," a shortening of entangle in some cases, in others probably a nasalized variant of tagilen "to involve in a difficult situation, entangle," from a Scandinavian source (compare dialectal Swedish taggla "to disorder," Old Norse þongull "seaweed"), from Proto-Germanic *thangul- (source also of Frisian tung, Dutch tang, German Tang "seaweed").
If so, the original sense might be "seaweed" as something that entangles (itself, or oars, or fishes, or nets). "The development of such a verb from a noun of limited use like tangle 1 is somewhat remarkable, and needs confirmation" [Century Dictionary].
The transitive sense of "bring others into one's power, entrap" is from mid-15c. In reference to material things, from c. 1500. The meaning "fight with" is American English, recorded by 1928. Related: Tangled; tangling. Tanglefoot (1859) was Western U.S. slang for "strong whiskey." Tanglesome "complicated" is attested from 1823.
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mid-14c., tanglen, "encumber, enmesh, knit together confusedly," a shortening of entangle in some cases, in others probably a nasalized variant of tagilen "to involve in a difficult situation, entangle," from a Scandinavian source (compare dialectal Swedish taggla "to disorder," Old Norse þongull "seaweed"), from Proto-Germanic *thangul- (source also of Frisian tung, Dutch tang, German Tang "seaweed").
If so, the original sense might be "seaweed" as something that entangles (itself, or oars, or fishes, or nets). "The development of such a verb from a noun of limited use like tangle 1 is somewhat remarkable, and needs confirmation" [Century Dictionary].
The transitive sense of "bring others into one's power, entrap" is from mid-15c. In reference to material things, from c. 1500. The meaning "fight with" is American English, recorded by 1928. Related: Tangled; tangling. Tanglefoot (1859) was Western U.S. slang for "strong whiskey." Tanglesome "complicated" is attested from 1823.
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Well now that's an interesting question, isn't it, whether you can compare a song to a book, because in 2016 Bob Dylan won the Nobel Prize for literature and some people were miffed saying "He writes songs not literature" with Scottish novelist Irvine Welsh going so far as to say "I'm a Dylan fan, but this is an ill conceived nostalgia award wrenched from the rancid prostates of senile, gibbering hippies", didn't he? I mean, isn't it?
(Sorry I got a bit lost trying to make this into a question.)
(Sorry I got a bit lost trying to make this into a question.)
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If someone asks "how many roads must a man walk down before you call him a man", isn't he already being called a man since you're already calling him a man, or do I just lack an understanding of serious literature?
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