Re: Ivar Bardson's usage of abbrevations former Re: AVM, Freemasons and the Larson papers dismissed

From: Daryl Krupa (icycalmca_at_yahoo.com)
Date: 12/23/04 

Date: 23 Dec 2004 12:19:10 -0800

Dylan Sung wrote:
> "Daryl Krupa" <icycalmca@yahoo.com> wrote in message
> news:1103765805.464915.126350@c13g2000cwb.googlegroups.com...
> >
> > In Norse and Icelandic,
> > "eša"
> > means
> > "or"
> > and is pronounced as something like the English
> > "either."
>
> either can be pronounced aID@ or i:D@

Dyl.:
I fear that you will have to provide me with
a pronunciation guide for those characters.
My best guess is that you meant something
in a Parisienne accent, maybe like
"ay-EEEE!! DAT!! DAT TING DERE!! EET'S 'ORRIBLE!!"
and a plummy-voiced Cockney Master of Ceremonies
recognising the wish of some top-hatted toff
to make 'imself 'eard:
"I call on de 'at."
But I'm pretty sure that that's not what you meant.

> From what little of Icelandic I know,
> the first syllble of "eša" rimes with
> 'ay' in English "ray"
> the final syllable English 'the', or
> the two syllable rimes with Ada, the girl's name.

Dylan:
Not quite.
"š" is not "d", though it sometiomes became "d".
It is closer to a form of "th".
That's how both "fiord" and "firth" developed from
"fjarš".
Try pronouncing "either" with a broad Irish accent.
That might come close. Something like
"ate a" or "ate ahr" or maybe
"Hey, there" without the "H".
But of course, I'm no expert, being neither a
medieval Norseman nor a modern English-English
Swedishmans, so feel free to cast doubt on my
interpretation, if you so wish. I'm not vain.
Or Swedish. Assuming that that's not redundant.

Daryl Mešody Krupa

P.S.: If you were a Sagaman, would the
"Dylan Sung wrote"
at the top of this post be redundant?

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