Re: The lrc of Nothing is gonna change my love for you

Posted by futari on 2011/5/28 0:29:40
Quote:

Elinor wrote:
Modo,

You are too modest! You are an artist in my eye.



quasi-
prefix used since 18c. (but most productively in 20c.) and meaning “kid of, resembling, like but not really;” from L. quasi “as if, as it were” (see quasi).

modo
The prince of darkness; the fiend.

quasimodo
"Low Sunday," 1706, Quasimodo Sunday, from L. quasi modo, first words of introit for the first Sunday after Easter: quasi modo geniti infantes "as newborn babes" (1 Pet. ii:2). The hunchback in Victor Hugo's novel was supposed to have been abandoned as an infant at Notre Dame on this day.


http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?search=quasi&searchmode=none
http://www.wordnik.com/words/modo
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=modo


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(QUOTE) "... if you know what is quasimodo, and what quasi means then may you know what is modo means." (UNQUOTE)

Judging from Modo's quoted words, I guess Modo wants to say:

The word "modo" = "quasi" = "grosso modo"
(= almost; to a certain extent; in a rough way; roughly, circa or approximately)
= 類似的; 大致上; 有如; 似是; 近乎; 半的, 外表的
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