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"Faire la part des choses" calls for some sort of analysis, which has greek roots, but amusingly that's almost the same thing: analysis itself has a root (-lysi
by astrobe_ 5y ago
"Faire la part des choses" calls for some sort of analysis, which has greek roots, but amusingly that's almost the same thing: analysis itself has a root (-lysis) that means "decompose" which is not too far from "cutting into little pieces". It is also connected to "resolve", which also can mean "decide" or "terminate".
- agumonkey 5y agoI was about to say this. All in all there are very few ideas in our heads. But time and space gave thousands of various twists on which word will root the idiom.