On Thu, Aug 28, 2003 at 10:34:37AM -0400, Mark A Mandel <mam at theworld.com> wrote: > On Tue, 19 Aug 2003, Philip Hart wrote: > #On Tue, 19 Aug 2003, Matthew Hunter wrote: > #> On Tue, Aug 19, 2003 at 11:35:12AM -0700, Philip Hart <philiph at SLAC.Stanford.EDU> wrote: > #> > Latin, gibberish, ... - I miss the good old days when this list used > #> > English. > #> Who are you kidding? English IS latin gibberish. > # G G G/L G G G/L L ? > G G L G* > Where G = Germanic -- i.e., in all these cases, original English origin. > Of "gibberish", OED Online says that it's from "gibber" + "-ish" (as a > language name suffix, as in "English" ['of the Angles'], "Danish" and > "Swedish"; it's G.), and that "gibber" is onomatopoeic, which means we > can count it as G also. > In other words, the only Latin word of Matthew's eight words is "latin" > itself. He has created a self-disproving assertion. Beautiful, wasn't it? -- Matthew Hunter (matthew at infodancer.org) Public Key: http://matthew.infodancer.org/public_key.txt Homepage: http://matthew.infodancer.org/index.jsp Politics: http://www.triggerfinger.org/index.jsp