(Pronounced to rhyme with 'the tour see moo oh vay'(sorta); many people mangle it into rhyming with 'leper see movie' [but, what can you do?]) (n.) 1. the nasty habit of Reality to be what it is and to ignore what we want it to be; 2. conceding to someone's point of view or demands or whatever while at the same time pointing out that your concession is pointless: their point of view is still wrong; 3. recognition that a concession doesn't mean the conceder's opinion has really changed; 4. declaring that a war, a battle, a controversy, a vote (or whatever) is meaningless. (v.) 1. to advise wariness in an undertaking you believe to be futile or doomed to failure; 2. to concede or assume (for argument's sake) some point or premise you don't really really believe. (adj.) 1. of or about an act or situation to which someone has conceded in the face of all the evidence to the contrary; 2. an obviously incorrect theory to which someone adheres out of nostalgia, tradition, or desperation. (Italian: "still, it DOES move": The [possibly apocryphal] words of Galileo after he was forced by the Inquisition to declare that the Earth is at the center of the universe and therefore does NOT move "la terra non muove.")
Примеры использования:
"Why is it so hard to figure out angle trisection?!" "I don't know; eppur-si-muove I guess." | "Resolution 54B--seeking secession from Canada--passes! ... eppur-si-muove." | Dictator: "I wish to have peace with all the other tribes in my country." Negotiator: "Then we are agreed!" Downtrodden tribal representative: "Eppur-si-muove." | "In essence the Battle of New Orleans in 1814 was purely eppur-si-muove, the war having already ended." | "We're going to sneak into the Schloss Muenster and break him out." "Really? Eppur-si-muove." | "So, if they'll approve the contract, you'll call of the strike?" "Well, eppur-si-muove, yeah."
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