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Points: 11746 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 15 2008 at 18:38
Originally posted by June June wrote:

Originally posted by James James wrote:

Indeed, their etymology is from the original Old French.
Got an interest in Linguistics too, James?


I do too. I love learning new languages and study etymology.

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Points: 89372 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 15 2008 at 18:38
Originally posted by June June wrote:

Originally posted by James James wrote:

Indeed, their etymology is from the original Old French.
Got an interest in Linguistics too, James?


Indeed.

It's just I do not know enough, I just read stuff.  I should really take a course on linguistics.

I want to learn Latin too.
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Points: 89372 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 15 2008 at 18:39
Originally posted by HughesJB4 HughesJB4 wrote:

Derived from French or not, I still think it looks wrong to the eye when combined with the way you say it.
Plus, it makes me unique to spell like an American as someone living in Australia:P


There's no pride in spelling like an American, Harry. LOL
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Points: 11746 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 15 2008 at 18:41
I'll think I'll go burst out the sax now.

Bye people. Have fun.

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Points: 25210 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 15 2008 at 18:41
Originally posted by James James wrote:

Remember, Hamish, that the French pronunciation is: Té-at-tre

Those pesky Normans invaded us and the gullible English used their language rather than Latin and before that, Old Norse, Pictish, Anglo-Saxon and Celtic.


Hmm, maybe I should look more into that then.
Haven't read up on my medieval history in recent times.
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Points: 89372 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 15 2008 at 18:42
Oh and in your case, Harry, Welsh (which is based on Celtic).
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Originally posted by James James wrote:

Originally posted by HughesJB4 HughesJB4 wrote:

Derived from French or not, I still think it looks wrong to the eye when combined with the way you say it.
Plus, it makes me unique to spell like an American as someone living in Australia:P


There's no pride in spelling like an American, Harry. LOL


There may be no pride, but it sure is a different thing to do in AustraliaLOL
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Points: 89372 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 15 2008 at 18:43
What, ravver than speek like some Ozzy spazz?
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Take care Bern.

Hmm, can't say I'm a specialist in linguistics or etymology (obviously:P).
James, did you mean my first name is of Celtic origin?
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Points: 6521 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 15 2008 at 18:44

Remember that Life Of Brian bit where Brian gets his ear pulled by Cleese for not spelling properly?

Not ready for Latin though. I tried German in University, and that was my Waterloo. I used to do pretty well in my Spanish classes, in my Italian classes too (although that didn't last long), and I do speak three languages, but German, omg, all those cases? WTF??! Latin seems even worse.
 
I think the classes I did best in University were actually History Of The English language (what fun, I swear!) and Intro to Ling. I seriously considered taking the Ling. program, but the job placement... what placement?
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Points: 25210 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 15 2008 at 18:50
Life of Brian=Amazing movie.
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Points: 89372 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 15 2008 at 18:51
Originally posted by HughesJB4 HughesJB4 wrote:

Take care Bern.

Hmm, can't say I'm a specialist in linguistics or etymology (obviously:P).
James, did you mean my first name is of Celtic origin?


No, Hughes.

It's Welsh and French.

Hugo/Hugues

Harold/Harry is actually Scandinavian in origin.

Harald Hardrada was Norse.
Harold Godwinsson was the son of Godwin and was the last Anglo-Saxon King of England... however, his ancestry was also Scandinavian.
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Points: 6521 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 15 2008 at 18:53
Originally posted by HughesJB4 HughesJB4 wrote:

Life of Brian=Amazing movie.
 
Yeah, it's awesome. I usually lean more toward The Holy Grail though.
 
Did spend like 2 hours this summer watching Life of Brian almost frame by frame to try and find Waldo (George Harrison)...
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Wow, I didn't actually know Harry was a Scandinavian name in origin, but you told me before Hughes was Welsh-ish/ French Normandy kinda thing.
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Originally posted by June June wrote:

Originally posted by HughesJB4 HughesJB4 wrote:

Life of Brian=Amazing movie.
 
Yeah, it's awesome. I usually lean more toward The Holy Grail though.
 
Did spend like 2 hours this summer watching Life of Brian almost frame by frame to try and find Waldo (George Harrison)...


The Holy Grail=even more amazing than Life Of Brian.
Would go so far to say: The Holy Grail=one of the funniest movies in existence.
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Points: 89372 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 15 2008 at 18:57
Can someone tell me how Sex can be on fire?

Kings of Leon seem to think it's possible.

Harry:

Harold is an Old English name, meaning "army leader", same as the title herald. A diminutive of Harold is Harry.

Well it's more Scandinavian in origin, rather than Old English as such.
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Points: 65499 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 15 2008 at 18:58
so we'd be speaking Latin now if it weren't for Vikings?
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Points: 89372 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 15 2008 at 18:58
However, Mr. Creosote gets me every time in Meaning of Life...

Just one more, it's wafer thin!
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Points: 6521 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 15 2008 at 18:58
Harald is still pretty common in Scandinavia.
 
Hughes (wait, what I am supposed to call you again?), I do hope you saw the Lego clips of the Holy Grail?
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Points: 89372 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 15 2008 at 18:59
Originally posted by Atavachron Atavachron wrote:

so we'd be speaking Latin now if it weren't for Vikings?


Probably not.

We'd have been invaded by someone else. LOL
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