Re: ach y fi (was: CHAT Starbucks (was: Hymn to Ikea etc.))

In a message dated 2004:02:29 03:13:29 AM, romilly@EGL.NET writes:

>Michael Poxon wrote:
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>> Yes it is /a:x@vi:/ or /a:xVvi:/ meaning something that you say when
>you
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>> throw your hands up in despair. "Oh no!" "My goodness" or whatever.
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>> Literally it's "Oh the me!"
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>Very reminiscent of Spanish "¡Ay de mí!" and French? Italian? literary
>"ahimé" 'alas'.  Do other languages have such close correspondences? Did
>Latin, or might this be a Celticism???  Just _speculans_.
AiYah! (Oy vey...)


---///// __/_//_/ __/_//  in the Kali Yuga Yera of 2004 CE,
                year 4702 of the Huangdi era,
                Year of the Wooden Monkey, _Jia-Shen_...

Nom de Guerre: Hanuman "Stitch/626" Zhang
AIN Resistance Partisan CodeName: "Z23-4C"
    WOGeR (Wiley Oriental Gentleperson/Rogue)
    BBC (BritishBornChinaman)
        Avatar of Sun Wu K'ung, a.k.a. Sun Wukong, a.k.a _Ma-Lau_ ("Monkey
King")
        a.k.a. "TricksterGod of the Glorious Anti-Imperialist Chinese Boxers"
        the One & Only Real King Kong!!!
            http://www.uglychinese.org/war.htm
            ¡¡¡  TricksterShapeShifterIncarnate  !!!  >^..^<       ';'
;P~~~
            <A HREF="http://www.boheme-magazine.net">=> boheme-magazine.net
</A>
=>  om hung hanumatay rudratmakai hung phat  <=
    mantra to Hanuman the Hindu Monkey TricksterGod

==> Ko nahi janat hai jag mein kapi, sankat mochan naam tiharo <==
[Who does not know that in this world oh monkey, thy name is one which
liberates one out of all problems].

"Whoso would be a man must be a nonconformist...
Imitation is suicide." - Ralph Waldo Emerson

I Am A Bird, don't try
to tell my wings where to fly.

    "I rather be whole than good." - Carl Jung

"It's also a rule of thumb that exceptional talents come at a cost..." -
Richard C. Cytowic, medical expert on synaethesia

<=  thee prIs ov eXistenZ iz aetern'l warfaer 'N' kreativ playf'llnizz...  =>

"Life is all a great joke, but only the brave ever get the point."
                                            - Kenneth Rexroth
googolgigglabyte
goegolgiechelbijt  - of - met een vette megagrijns
GoogolGekicherByte
googolrisibyte ===> el byte de la  risita de googol
googolrisadinhabyte ===>  o byte de risadinha de googol
googolspassoctet                    guugoIllolbijt
gugolhihibajt                       gugolngisibayt
okukolkikikol                       egúgelegigalibaith
kiletstroknolyadgigabaiti           cimacimakekehapi
baitakhakhweifayatrauni         ufi'auayinisuguguluarkhar
pokatra oemadroabhethetre       inarevuta yhiyhayhake nawyo
AnekoMeppathmoTtilvatelmDiggulgyttahat
va'i utne tuktukt'ishushukuko`g tuk  go`go`o`gwgaga
ggsngngsbd [gugulaNexebidi]

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