Re: Anthroponymy (was Re: Re: Laadan)

In a message dated 2002/12/13 07.21.41 AM, latinfrench@SAGESCHOOL.ORG writes:

>As does Chinese. The reasoning I learned was that you always work
>from the largest element to the smallest. This includes dates which
>are year, month, day; addresses which are country (if sent from
>abroad), province, city or town, street, alley (if extant), house
>number, person;  and names which are surname, given name. All three
>languages work this way AFAIK, and coincidentally, all three have
>adjs. preceding their nouns, but I don't know what that means -- I
>never thought about it this way before.
    Perhaps it is because the adjective is in a sense "larger" than the
object it describes & the object is somewhat-to-highly specific. In a sense,
the so-call adjective is almost like a classifier-word (or even the initial
word in an evolving word-compound). That is the impression I gather from
lookin' into Archaic Chinese data and translations.


In a message dated 2002/12/13 12.06.16 PM, maurauser@DPG.HU writes:

>All three languages think like the East ( though Hungarian is somewhat
>between the West and the East, regarding its way ), whose philosophy is to
know
>the inside of things, (here the names) while the typical european way of
thinking is >to touch the surface and see how it can serve his own purposes
and wishes. This is >not bad but different.

    Yes. True to a certain level. One has to remember that seemingly
clear-cut terminology used to describe European languages break-down (and
leak) when confronting many non-(Indo-) European languages.
I think this may be the case here as well.
    Hard to tell if the language shapes the world-view or the world-view
shapes the language or some mixture of both in a "chaotic feedback loop" (I
personally favour the Chaos Theory idea ;)

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