Re: CHAT: September 17th
| From: | Costentin Cornomorus <elemtilas@...> |
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| Date: | Wednesday, September 17, 2003, 17:43 |
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--- Stone Gordonssen
<stonegordonssen@...> wrote:
> >Well, today is September 17th, and the feast
> >of (St.) Hildegard of
> >Bingen - the conlangers' patron saint,
> >probably.
>
> I actually read something about Catholic Saints
> while doing some rsarch on
> Vodou. Heldegard is not the patron saint of
> linguists/linguopiles, but I
> can't remember who was other than he was rather
> obscure (shown often as an
> old man bent over a desk writing). Drat.
St. Gotteschalk is the patron of linguists,
having translated sermons into Slavonic. 7 June
is his day. Though that's no more "linguistic"
than Jerome who translated the bible into Latin.
Arguments could also be made for Cyril &
Methodius who devised the Glagolitic/Cyrilic
alphabet.
I'd prefer Hildegard because she's a cònlanger.
> I don't have patron saints myself, being Pagan,
> but I do have Oghma, Celtic god who invented
> writing.
There you go.
Padraic.
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