Re: CHAT: September 17th
| From: | Stone Gordonssen <stonegordonssen@...> |
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| Date: | Wednesday, September 17, 2003, 20:34 |
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>I seem to recall that somewhere, someone proposed St. Isidore of Seville,
>who wrote a lot about etymologies. But most of his etymologies* are
>ludicrously wrong, and he was a dreadful anti-Semite to boot.
Well, more than one Catholic saint was an anti-semite. ::shrug::
But I believe that Isidore of Seville is now the patron saint of
programmers.
Gottschalk, whom someone else mentioned, is the one about whom I'd read.
As for Hildegaard, she was conlanger? I must have missed those posts.
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