Re: USAGE: Language revival
| From: | Raymond Brown <ray.brown@...> |
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| Date: | Thursday, November 25, 1999, 20:59 |
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At 5:56 pm -0700 24/11/99, Ed Heil wrote:
>It is a great pleasure to find myself agreeing with Nik; we often seem
>to be at odds over minor things. BTW, Nik, the most famous use of
>"Dwarfs" is after "Snow White and the Seven". :)
....which, Tolkien tells us, is why he coined the plural "dwarves" - he
didn't want his dwarves to be confused with Disney's dwarfs.
That Nik doesn't recall coming across 'dwarfs' says much about Tolkien's
influence :)
Ray.
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A mind which thinks at its own expense
will always interfere with language.
[J.G. Hamann 1760]
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