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schme wrote:Don't worry, Pirate Lass, I won't beat you. Wherever you got that idea from, I have no idea.
I do not know what you mean by new spawn.
I know I was the result of some spawning, but that happened quite some time ago, nine months before I came on the scene, if I remember correctly.
Actually to 'spawn' is to be born...usually applied to insects and other lower life forms...the word you're looking for is 'conception', possibly.
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schme wrote:Spawn does not mean to be born. It means to create, in a way.
"The idea was initially spawned in Greece."
"The salmon are off to spawn."
you are "spawn" of satan....
dragons are "spawned" in the imagination....
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still a post whore, see? I go away for a while and my post count is STILL higher the pirate lass's...hehehehe
Here I am. BITE ME. or not, in fact, never mind, dont want some wacko taking me up on the offer. Only non wacko's may apply for bite allowance.. no garentee that you will be granted said allowance, but you can try.
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I'm not sure which came first, but I suspect spawn originally refered to the biological process of creation (ie. birth). At any rate, the term creation and birth are very closely connected and often used interchangeably, either in a metaphorical or literal sense. That is, it is perfectly acceptable to say that you create a child as to say you give birth to a child. People often refer to things that aren't biological offspring as births, too. Someone may say that a book they wrote is one's child, or we might say that Freud was the father of psycho-analysis.
In many of humanity's oldest myths, the act of the creation of the universe has often been described in terms of giving birth, or as the hatching of a cosmic egg.
I don't know if you could go as far as to say that birth and creation are synonymous, but they are so closely linked that I don't think it really matters whether you take "spawn" to mean birth or creation... the same idea comes across.
In many of humanity's oldest myths, the act of the creation of the universe has often been described in terms of giving birth, or as the hatching of a cosmic egg.
I don't know if you could go as far as to say that birth and creation are synonymous, but they are so closely linked that I don't think it really matters whether you take "spawn" to mean birth or creation... the same idea comes across.
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