Dragaera

Great Weapons (was Possible spoilers for _Sethra Lavode_ (was Re: Dumas))

Thu Aug 28 23:51:07 PDT 2003

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?

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