Re: Etymology of "Ketzer"


Peter T. Daniels wrote:
Holly wrote:

Peter T. Daniels wrote:
Holly wrote:

Peter T. Daniels wrote:
I trust you can understand why, when Holly appeared here, I was reminded
of the person whose name I couldn't remember, Heidi, who had been here
many months earlier.

They have the very similar style of absolutely refusing to believe what
people who know what they're talking about tell them, preferring
outlandishly mystical explanations.

Including, of course, Franz's.
--
Peter T. Daniels grammatim@xxxxxxx

Was that an apology? If it was I'll forgive all the donuts you will
owe me in the future just as long as you remember that I write fiction
and respect that I am a libertarian.

Apology?? For what??

Donuts????

How would I know that you write fiction or are a libertarian?

All I know is that your approach is identical to Heidi's, so when you
appeared here, I thought you were Heidi, who had been gone for months
(but has now reappeared).
--
Peter T. Daniels grammatim@xxxxxxx

Ookee ... whaaat.ever.

So everything you wrote above was complete nonsense?

I read that the Dravidian word for fish "min" is the same sound as
their word for star; therefore they use the fish pictogram with other
pictograms when writing about a star.

Nothing to do with Dravidian writing. This homonymy is one of Asko
Parpola's reasons for supposing that the Indus script records an early
Dravidian language. He doesn't explain why they didn't simply draw a
picture of a star to represent 'star'.
--
That bothers me too. In fact the logic or lack of logic from my
perspective of homonymic associative word meanings (I don't know how to
describe that) is a bit strange, yet they do exist as in the Chinese
"fu" example. Why the word for "bat," just because is sounds the same
as the word for "good luck," should be considered lucky makes me
wonder. Perhaps a sociological explanation would lend more
understanding to what causes this phenomenia. A people under great
hardship, for example, might look for any bit of good luck no matter
how far fetched the reasoning behind it may be. A belief in the power
of sound could be another explanation. For example, Tibetans hang
prayer flags so that the wind can carry the prayers (written words) to
all four corners of the world. All over the world, spoken prayers are
believed to have power to heal.

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