Re: vulgarisms
| From: | Andrew Smith <hobbit@...> |
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| Date: | Friday, November 13, 1998, 6:30 |
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On Thu, 12 Nov 1998, Eric Christopherson wrote:
> > mab car! lit. dear boy! = English _boy!_
> "Boy!" is an obscenity/insult?
>
More of an exclamation rather than a vulgarism, inserted as an example of
a colloquialism to fill out a list.
> Who is this *Mahaves?
>
Correctly it should be *Mahaveh which has been pointed out is more
accurate a derivation from the Hebrew verbstem HWH than the divine name
"Yahweh". I posited *Mahaves as an adaption of the verbal noun into a
biblical latin. Since suggesting a hypothetical verbalnoun is a name for
the patron deity of the Conlang list-conculture is nonsensical I did not
resist making the name sound more high-falutin'.
- andrew.
Andrew Smith, Intheologus hobbit@earthlight.co.nz
Life is short, so am I!
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