Re: Ong Rokbeigalmki (A Rokbeigalmki Chant)
| From: | Steg Belsky <draqonfayir@...> |
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| Date: | Friday, October 1, 1999, 15:30 |
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On Thu, 30 Sep 1999 16:43:51 +1200 andrew <hobbit@...>
writes:
> Also I know Anglo-Norman re-enactors who use the battle-cry
> {Allons-ci,
> allons-ci, allon-ci} "Here we go! Here we go! Here we go!" So
> using
> aller in chants does not sound unusual to me and it leads me to
> suspect
> that Rokbeigalmki {olej} may be an (innocent) parallel development.
>
> - andrew.
I might not have been explicit in my post...
The first two words in the first compound, _OleiSharei_, comes from a
cheer for a highschool basketball team. The school is "Yeshivah Shaarei
Torah", so the cheer went "ole, ole ole ole, Shaarei, Shaarei!" with the
Spanish "ole".
-Stephen (Steg)
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