Re: Mefato
| From: | Jim Henry <jimhenry1973@...> |
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| Date: | Thursday, July 12, 2007, 0:08 |
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On 7/10/07, R A Brown <ray@...> wrote:
> When I saw 'Philip Newton' as the writer of the mail, I thought I was
> going to read some comment about the names 'Anander Hythloday' and
> 'Mefato' ;)
I recognized the surname "Hythloday" from St Thomas More's _Utopia_.
"hythlos" is "fun, buffoonery" according to my pocket Langenscheidt;
"mefato" could be parsed as something like "no-speech" or "no-words".
So, "Nobody Silliness", describing the phonology of "Nolanguage"?
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Jim Henry
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