Re: Kamakawi Orthography Page

Is that an urban legend, or did you just make it up? (:
Eugene

On Sat, Jun 7, 2008 at 11:35 AM, Ph. D. <phil@...> wrote:

> And Rosta wrote:
>
>>
>> As for Vista puns, I wonder if there can be conjoured up a (hypothetical)
>> Latin adverb _viciter_ meaning "instead of", Windows Viciter being so called
>> obviously because it is instead of XP. (Admittedly the pun requires
>> nonrhoticity, which is more to be expected in the pronunc of an English
>> placename than a Latin adverb, unless I declare the adverb to be an English
>> borrowing from Latin, which I hereby do.)
>>
>
>
> Isn't "Nintendo" a corruption of the Latin "Non
> tendo mentem" (I do not stretch [my] mind.) ?
>
> --Ph. D.
>

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