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[–] • 8 pts

I don’t think Mick fucked up too often, but for most sculptors they use wax to hide or fix imperfections. This practice is apparently the origin of the word sincere - in Latin sine means without and cere means wax, so sincere means without wax, referring to a perfect sculpture without imperfections that needed to be hidden.

[–] • 2 pts

I never new that word origin and it is absolutely awesome.

[–] • 0 pt

Cool story bro

sincere adj. 1533, honest, straightforward; borrowed from Middle French sincere, from Latin sincērus sound, whole, pure, genuine, perhaps originally “of one growth,” not hybrid, unmixed (dissimilated by loss of r after c in earlier *sincrēros), from sem-, sin- one (cognate with Greek heis, hén one; see SAME) + the root of crēscere to grow; see CRESCENT.