Re: OT: Announcement Follow-up

Am 08/03 07:25  David Peterson yscrifef:
>     My sister has been born! ~:D  I'm so excited!  I've never been a brother
> or an anything before...  Much thanks for all your greetings and
> well-wishings.  It's 4:20 a.m. right now (which would suggest a particular
> method of celebration among many of my colleagues up at Berkeley, were they
> awake), and my sister was born at 1:13 a.m., 8 lbs., 5 oz. (I was 8, 4).
>     Her name?  It remains a mystery; my parents can't make up their minds.
> She could be the next Peekaboo Street.  I vote for Gloria, Julia, Thalia,
> Ayla or Halah.  What are some of your words for "happiness"?  The ones I can
> remember off-hand of mine are /lijiT/ (Wivojs), /hilejfat/ (Megdevi) and
> /Sej/ (Sunshine).  Hee, hee!  So happy...!  Yet, so tired...
>
It's a bit late now but congratulations.  In Brithenig I would say "Pab
Ffelig'dad" /p@b fElIdZ'dad/, which means 'Every Happiness'.  It is a
casual greeting among Brithenig speakers.  Happiness for them describes
any highly emotional state bordering on ecstatic, which sounds like what
you are experiencing.  Naming a child that would be the equivalent of
Felicity or Winsome.

- andrew.
--
Andrew Smith, Intheologus                       hobbit@griffler.co.nz
alias Mungo Foxburr of Loamsdown
http://hobbit.griffler.co.nz/homepage.html

'That corpse you planted last year in your garden,
Has it begun to sprout?  Will it bloom this year?
Or has the sudden frost disturbed its bed?
O keep the Dog far hence, that's friend to men,
Or with his nails he'll dig it up again!'
                                       - The Waste Land, T.S. Elliot.