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Delodephius · **Posted:** Thu 08 Jul 2010 4:43 pm

I'm a poor village boy in Eastern Europe. I spend most of my time studying languages and philosophy from smuggled or stolen books because I can't afford them. Happy now? I'm not kidding.

falasha · Joined:Mon 07 Jun 2010 12:08 pm Posts:85

Delodephius wrote:

I'm a poor village boy in Eastern Europe. I spend most of my time studying languages and philosophy from smuggled or stolen books because I can't afford them. Happy now? I'm not kidding.

If you are a poor village boy how did you become so supercilious?

Delodephius · **Posted:** Thu 08 Jul 2010 4:59 pm

I took classes.

linguoboy · Joined:Sun 19 Apr 2009 9:02 am Posts:1003

falasha wrote:

I realize linguists worry more about the words and not the symbols they represent. However, if they were to consider the symbology behind the words perhaps they would have figured out long ago that dove dung was chick peas.

This seems like an excellent argument in favour of not considering symbology--at least not when it contradicts basic known scientific facts. If you think that dove dung and chickpeas are the same thing, then don't ever invite me to dinner at your house!

falasha wrote:

I have seen this many times. A person with an expensive education paid by daddy.

It doesn't matter who pays for an education, only that you acquire one. All Delo is saying is that yours needs a lot more work. He's not wrong.

falasha · Joined:Mon 07 Jun 2010 12:08 pm Posts:85

linguoboy wrote:

falasha wrote:

I realize linguists worry more about the words and not the symbols they represent. However, if they were to consider the symbology behind the words perhaps they would have figured out long ago that dove dung was chick peas.

This seems like an excellent argument in favour of not considering symbology--at least not when it contradicts basic known scientific facts. If you think that dove dung and chickpeas are the same thing, then don't ever invite me to dinner at your house!

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Have you ever heard of transliteration, Linguoboy? Turtle Dove (chick) Dung (Pee).

dtp883 · **Posted:** Fri 09 Jul 2010 2:12 am

Chickpeas have the scientific classification Cicer Arietinum and are of the Plantae kingdom. Scientist don't classify dung with species names. They are plants, not bird excrements. They are also commonly known in English as garbanzo beans. Cite.

Haha transliteration is when you write words or letters in a different alphabet than the original language. What you are thinking of is like substitution, replacing (a) word(s) with a similar one.

Example. דבר > daber is transliteration. Daber > speak is a translation. Speak > talk is a substitution.

linguoboy · Joined:Sun 19 Apr 2009 9:02 am Posts:1003

falasha wrote:

Have you ever heard of transliteration, Linguoboy?

Yeah, I think we covered that when I got my degree in linguistics. ("Daddy" didn't pay for it, by the way. I mention that because it seems to matter greatly to you.)

falasha wrote:

Turtle Dove (chick) Dung (Pee).

If you can't tell dung from pee, you must have some interesting conversations with your gynecologist!

falasha · Joined:Mon 07 Jun 2010 12:08 pm Posts:85

dtp883 wrote:

Chickpeas have the scientific classification Cicer Arietinum and are of the Plantae kingdom. Scientist don't classify dung with species names. They are plants, not bird excrements. They are also commonly known in English as garbanzo beans. Cite.

Haha transliteration is when you write words or letters in a different alphabet than the original language. What you are thinking of is like substitution, replacing (a) word(s) with a similar one.

Example. דבר > daber is transliteration. Daber > speak is a translation. Speak > talk is a substitution.

After investigating this it turns out nobody knows where this word comes from. They are just guessing. Cicer comes from Krios/Crius God of Sky, son of Oannes (Yonah). Peas comes from Peas (plural peasen) which comes from pisis/pisus etc. PISS.

falasha · Joined:Mon 07 Jun 2010 12:08 pm Posts:85

linguoboy wrote:

falasha wrote:

Have you ever heard of transliteration, Linguoboy?

Yeah, I think we covered that when I got my degree in linguistics. ("Daddy" didn't pay for it, by the way. I mention that because it seems to matter greatly to you.)

falasha wrote:

Turtle Dove (chick) Dung (Pee).

If you can't tell dung from pee, you must have some interesting conversations with your gynecologist!

Sexist comments should be reported. I don't know how well this forum is moderated. We shall see.

dtp883 · **Posted:** Fri 09 Jul 2010 5:56 am

I don't think you understand. It doesn't matter where the word chickpea comes from they are plants NOT bird dung.