Vegas & The Aftermath - Diary

[mulhuzz]

Tal: you'll know this, what's the name for a word that is half Greek half Latin?

I can't for the life of me recall...

Hybrid

Is there not a more fun word? I really feel like there is...

Not that I'm aware of. A neologism? That's just a new word, though.

I was thinking of like Chimera or similar. Is that a thing?

[Longy]

Replies soonest, am currently at McCarron Airport, aircraft spotting, important to get priorities right.

My next scheduled poker, as per the stakers schedule, is Wednesday, the Venetian $600 PLO.

Tomorrow and Tuesday I will be exploring Nevada in a hire car, and going to watch a Baseball game match thingie.

I am still thinking about coming to the baseball tomorrow, hope to see you there.

Get working on your baseball stats, I will be very disappointed if you don't know the slugging % of the 51s hitters is.

[Tal]

Tal: you'll know this, what's the name for a word that is half Greek half Latin?

I can't for the life of me recall...

Hybrid

Is there not a more fun word? I really feel like there is...

Not that I'm aware of. A neologism? That's just a new word, though.

I was thinking of like Chimera or similar. Is that a thing?

Ooh could be. They use that for animals with mixed genetics, so that could work.

[Redsgirl]

The Z in this man's name is pronounced like a G. Why? Because it isn't a Z; it's a Yogh.


How do you pronounce the first word in this shop?

Click to see full-size image.

It's not Ye; it's the. The first letter is a Thorn.

The evolution of our language has meant these letters - and others - are largely obsolete, but we still see them crop up here and there. We are blessed with such a wonderful language, slathered copiously with history, variety and influence. A little bit of French here. A little Anglo-Saxon there. A word no one knows where it came from every once in a while, too (the origin of the word dog is disputed; possibly Dutch).

I suppose, when I see Wikipedia, I am nonplussed that there's no ash (that's the æ symbol even my smartphone keyboard knows about). After all, it's half Hawaiian and half Greek. Nobody seems to mind these days that television is half Latin and half Greek.

The Esthetics thing did make me do one of those paternal stares, though. You know, when they look over their newspaper to give you a disapproving look.

The ae thingy is half Hawaiian half Greek? Really? Or am I being whooshed, please explain.

I always assumed it was an Saxon (Old German) letter? As in Aethelred or Aethelbert and the like.

I'm partway through Bill Bryson's Mother tongue at the minute as an introduction to this kind of thing and it's been a revelation so far, so many everyday words have complicated and wonderful origins.

[Tal]

Lol

Wikipedia is, I believe, half Wiki (I think a Hawaiian word for quick) and half Pædia (Greek for...Errr...reference?)

And, as for the other bit, Old English was essentially driven by Anglo Saxon, so you're absolutely right.

Incidentally, England is named after the Angle people: Angle Land. The French remember that: Angleterre. Over time, A became E and we became England. I assume that was after the Norman invasion, given the French still spell it with an A. Another reason to be thankful for the written press, I suppose.

[Redsgirl]

Lol

Wikipedia is, I believe, half Wiki (I think a Hawaiian word for quick) and half Pædia (Greek for...Errr...reference?)

Ha, I knew I'd got the wrong end of the stick again!
Best go finish that book before I go commenting on stuff again. 

[Tal]

Lol

Wikipedia is, I believe, half Wiki (I think a Hawaiian word for quick) and half Pædia (Greek for...Errr...reference?)

Ha, I knew I'd got the wrong end of the stick again!
Best go finish that book before I go commenting on stuff again. 

Sir Menzies Campbell, however, is half Hawaiian and half Greek.

[Redsgirl]

Lol

Wikipedia is, I believe, half Wiki (I think a Hawaiian word for quick) and half Pædia (Greek for...Errr...reference?)

Ha, I knew I'd got the wrong end of the stick again!
Best go finish that book before I go commenting on stuff again.  

Sir Menzies Campbell, however, is half Hawaiian and half Greek.

I wonder where he goes on his holidays?

[mulhuzz]

You think English has lost a lot of letters, Tal?

Got nothing on Hawaiian Latin script. Only has 13 letters left, and one of them is a glottal stop!

[Tal]

Anyway, hope this helps alleviate any writer's block for the forthcoming blog or Bluff article.

Diphthong natter ftw.

Possibly the most unpronouncable word in the English language is the opposite of a diphthong, so a letter with only one sound:

Monophthong.

If you can negotiate that word in a sentence whilst chewing a piece of bread roll in an audience with The Queen, fair play to you.

[Tal]

Lol

Wikipedia is, I believe, half Wiki (I think a Hawaiian word for quick) and half Pædia (Greek for...Errr...reference?)

Ha, I knew I'd got the wrong end of the stick again!
Best go finish that book before I go commenting on stuff again. 

Sir Menzies Campbell, however, is half Hawaiian and half Greek.

I wonder where he goes on his holidays.

[Tal]

You think English has lost a lot of letters, Tal?

Got nothing on Hawaiian Latin script. Only has 13 letters left, and one of them is a glottal stop!

Fabulous!

We do well to get by with just 26.

[mulhuzz]

Glottal Stops; interesting things.

To save people googling - hard to describe a glottal stop in English:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glottal_stop

But think of it as the pause between 'uh' and 'oh' in uh-oh.

[bobby1]

More Vegas nonsense.

Note how cleverly I weaved "concrete" into this piece......


http://bit.ly/SnaidR

cheers mate, just done a quick google search for Goblin teasmaid and think I must have broken t'internet as all the links I click come up as blocked.

[bobby1]

Enjoy the ball game too, can you still remember the words to the song?