Re: Common Orcish Article (Long) - was Re: tolkien?

At 18:29 19.12.2003, Andreas Johansson wrote:

>Quoting Benct Philip Jonsson <bpj@...>:
>
> > At 23:12 18.12.2003, Christophe Grandsire wrote:
> >
> > >Well, that would be a possibility ... but I think I'll leave it as is. If
> > we
> > >had dissimulation here, it ought to turn up in alot of other places too,
> > >
> > >Hehe, another example of a linguistic term which shows its own meaning.
> > >The correct term is "dissim*i*lation" :))) .
> >
> > There's none as good as 'hap(lo)logy' anyway.
> > What really annoys me is that some use
> > 'morphonology' in earnest.  Don't they know
> > what _moros_ means?
>
>I'm not guilty of that particular sin, but nonetheless don't know what "moros"
>means, unless it's the Spanish for "Moors" (or Muslim Filipinos), which seems
>unlikely. Enlighten me?
'tis Greek for 'stupid'.

/BP 8^)
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