Sweet.

Date: 2009-12-12 11:21 pm (UTC)
cnoocy: green a-e ligature (Default)
From: [personal profile] cnoocy
"Christmas" is "Cross-God-Birth"?

Re: Sweet.

Date: 2009-12-12 11:41 pm (UTC)
cnoocy: green a-e ligature (Default)
From: [personal profile] cnoocy
And should "Fight" be an I?

Re: Sweet.

Date: 2009-12-13 04:14 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] rikchik.livejournal.com
Don't think so - it's big fighting. What would Fight-I mean?

Re: Sweet.

Date: 2009-12-13 04:58 am (UTC)
cnoocy: green a-e ligature (Default)
From: [personal profile] cnoocy
The concept of big-fighting.

Re: Sweet.

Date: 2009-12-13 01:36 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] rikchik.livejournal.com
To me saying "the concept of war is over" isn't a call for peace but for some sort of NewSpeak-style eradication of the ability to think about war. I don't think that's what John and Yoko were saying.

Re: Sweet.

Date: 2009-12-13 02:03 pm (UTC)
cnoocy: green a-e ligature (Default)
From: [personal profile] cnoocy
That's fair enough. I just wanted to distinguish "War Is Over" from "The War Is Over" which is a very different thing.

Re: Sweet.

Date: 2009-12-13 02:53 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] rikchik.livejournal.com
I think that would use a pronomial.

Re: Sweet.

Date: 2009-12-13 04:05 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] rikchik.livejournal.com
Well, Junction-God-Birth-Span anyway. I noticed today that there is a small resemblance to the letters XMAS which is kind of fun.

Re: Sweet.

Date: 2009-12-13 09:06 pm (UTC)
cnoocy: green a-e ligature (Default)
From: [personal profile] cnoocy
The use of Junction is interesting. It implies that Jesus is either "the god who was crucified" or "the god whose name is X", both of which are not without precedent in Christian practice. Naming Jesus "cross-god" rather than "savior-god" or "etymology-of-'Jesus'-god" is, as I was just saying to [livejournal.com profile] lumpybeast, felicitous but not obvious.

Re: Sweet.

Date: 2009-12-14 12:56 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] rikchik.livejournal.com
In my head, I see Christian missionaries starting with the symbol of the cross when explaining their religion to rikchiks, the rikchiks coming up with "junction-god", and the missionaries saying "ok, that works" and rolling with it. Rikchik names for other human religions are left as an exercise to the reader.

Date: 2009-12-13 05:39 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] tahnan.livejournal.com
Speaking as a linguist, "Oorlog is verby!" is clearly made up. I now suspect Afrikaans is not a real language after all.

Date: 2009-12-14 12:59 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] rikchik.livejournal.com
As a non-linguist, I'm going to have to trust your judgment on that one. If anyone asks me why I don't think Aafrikans is a real language I'll send them to you.

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