[Buddha-l] Mere mereness

[Steven Rhodes]

However, the French are not above/beyond recasting proper names:  Rogier 
van der Weyden gets transmogrified into Rog(i)er de la Pasture . . . and 
what is one to make of "Michelange"?  I guess that purity is in the eye 
of the beholder (or transmogrifier).

Steven Rhodes


Richard Hayes wrote:

>On Thursday 31 August 2006 05:35, Erik Hoogcarspel wrote:
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>>Alas, the reach of the anglophones goes far. Sometime between
>>1960 and 1967 someone stole Platon's 'n'.
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>I'm sorry to hear that. On behalf of all anglophones (who have given 
>me permission to speak on their behalf), I apologize to the 
>speakers of Dutch. And to Platon and Pyrrhon, whose names were 
>unceremoniously truncated by the lazy English tongue.
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>>The French and Germans guarded the
>>'n' against all lingual intrusions. They also purified their
>>computerprograms from anglophone influence. The French even
>>didn't accept the word 'computer' but insisted on 'ordinateur'.
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>The French are always so sensible in linguistic matters, although 
>not always as sensible as the Quebecois, who guard their language 
>from English incursions even more assiduously than the French.
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>>It's like the Punjabi habit of dropping the 'a' at the and of
>>words, which thurns Buddha into Buddh, while the Bengalis on the
>>other hand talk about Buddho.
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>The people of the southern regions of India compensate for this by 
>retaining the 'a' and adding an 'n'. So there we can find Raman and 
>Krishnan and perhaps even Buddhan and Platon. (Or do they add 
>an 'n' to arrive at Platonn?)
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>By the way, are you people in Holland mourning the loss of one of 
>our favourite planets, Pluton? Myself, I think it's only right to 
>decide that Pluto and Neptune are not planets, since neither of 
>them is mentioned in the Pali Canon, which contains all truth.
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