Re: OT: semi-OT: names
| From: | J Y S Czhang <czhang23@...> |
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| Date: | Thursday, March 28, 2002, 3:18 |
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>In my conlang, for example, I'd be Jana Noyeli Morisá*, and I live in Lasi
>Yegase, Neyada.
.ur-ae'u'm =
"anumaan d:j"ang /h_han.uma~n dZ_haN/
Hanuman Zhang {HANoomaan JAHng} /'hanuma~n dZahN/
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_LILA_ <from Sanskrit> = "Divine Play" - the 'joyous exercise of spontaneity
involved in the art of creation' (Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan)...the play of
creation, destruction, & re-creation, the folding & unfolding of the cosmos...
both the delight & enjoyment of this moment, & the play of [the] God[head]
("the universe is what happens when God wants to play").
_Spielraum_ <from German> = free scope to experiment with things & ideas; to
toy with ideas; room to play in
WHIM = 1a. a sudden fancy; a caprice. b. capriciousness. 2. a kind of
windlass for raising ore or water from a mine. [17th century: origin unknown]
WHIMSY (plural forms: WHIMSIES, WHIMSEYS) = 1. a whim; a capricious
notion or fancy. 2. capricious or quaint humour. [related to WHIM-WHAM
]/Italian _capriccio_, French _boutade_
WHIM-WHAM = a toy or plaything