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Jowisz[edit]

Does "Jowisz" ever mean "intellect" in Polish? Our article on Polish sculptor Jan Jerzy Plersch depicts one of his statues, which clearly bears the inscription "Jowisz" at the bottom. The caption in our article calls this statue Intellect, but pl:Jowisz is an article about the planet Jupiter, and the babel link for intellect is pl:Intelekt. Nyttend (talk) 01:09, 28 May 2017 (UTC)[reply]

I have no idea why (or rather if indeed?) this statue is named "Intillect" where it is clearly written "Jowisz", but Polish Jowisz has come from Latin Jovis "(the god) Jupiter" (cf. English Jove) through German Jowis (this is why there is -sz, because Middle German s was a hushing sibilant /s̺/ and sounded to the Poles rather like sz /ʃ~ʂ/ than s /s/).--Lüboslóv Yęzýkin (talk) 05:13, 28 May 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Yes it is indeed named "Intelekt" even though it is clearly signed as "Jowisz": [1] XIX wieczni konserwatorzy uznali, że rzeźba przedstawia Jowisza, prawdopodobnie dlatego, że jednym z jego atrybutów jest orzeł. Jednakże Jowisz nie jest z reguły przedstawiany jako młodzieniec, ani nie chodzi w zbroi. Rzeźba przedstawia Intelekt. --5.29.249.116 (talk) 07:03, 28 May 2017 (UTC)[reply]

The above quote translated to English by Google: In the 19th century the conservators recognized that the sculpture depicts Jupiter, probably because one of his attributes is an eagle. However, Jupiter is generally not portrayed as a young man, nor is he in armor. Sculpture shows Intellect. --CiaPan (talk) 21:35, 28 May 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Above translation confirmed (native speaker here). It appears that different generations of art history experts had different ideas as to what the scupltor had in mind. Not unusual. — Kpalion^(talk) 09:29, 30 May 2017 (UTC)[reply]

@Kpalion: I'm a native speaker too, but only in one of the two languages!

--CiaPan (talk) 10:40, 30 May 2017 (UTC)[reply]

It's just an opinion and dubious speculations of an unnamed person who seems not to have known the ancient statues which look similar[2].--Lüboslóv Yęzýkin (talk) 11:13, 30 May 2017 (UTC)[reply]

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What is the antonym/opposite of isolationist/isolationism?68.151.25.115 (talk) 05:33, 28 May 2017 (UTC)[reply]

How about interventionist? ←Baseball Bugs ^{What's up, Doc?} carrots→ 09:42, 28 May 2017 (UTC)[reply]

I would prefer internationalism - working together with other countries to deal with issues, rather than intervening in other countries affairs. American isolationism, in the 20s and 30s didn't stop the country intervening in the affairs of its neighbours in Central America- but did mean it wouldn't join the League of Nations and try to work with others to solve the world's problems. Wymspen (talk) 10:05, 28 May 2017 (UTC)[reply]

That works too. ←Baseball Bugs ^{What's up, Doc?} carrots→ 10:51, 28 May 2017 (UTC)[reply]

I'm actually looking for a word that applies not only to polities. For example, isolationism is an ideology. Also, I could be isolationist towards other people.68.151.25.115 (talk) 20:08, 28 May 2017 (UTC)[reply]

That kind of thing is often called "antisocial" - as opposed to "sociable" or "social". ←Baseball Bugs ^{What's up, Doc?} carrots→ 23:55, 28 May 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Gregarious ? Outgoing ? StuRat (talk) 21:34, 30 May 2017 (UTC)[reply]