Re: CHAT: pacifism

On Saturday, December 20, 2003, at 08:31  AM, J Y S Czhang wrote:
>     The bone oracle dice have been cast, the handwriting is on the
> cracked, fracturing wall - _Mene Mene Tekel Upharsin_ ...
>     [Aramic, literally translated:
>         "numbered, numbered, weighed, divided"...
I actually finished learning the Book of Daniel a few weeks ago... and
i found that the 'writing on the wall' *sounds* a lot more ominous than
it looks:

/m@'ne? m@'ne? t@'k.el uPar'si:n/

k. = emphatic (glottalized/pharyngealized)
P = bilabial voiceless fricative


-Stephen (Steg)
  "elf boot got soul!  elf girls like to rock 'n' roll!"
      ~ tolkien geek rap 'lords of the rhymes'