[Buddha-l] Mere mereness

[Chan Fu]

On 8/31/06, Richard Hayes <rhayes at unm.edu> wrote:
> On Thursday 31 August 2006 05:35, Erik Hoogcarspel wrote:
>
> > Alas, the reach of the anglophones goes far. Sometime between
> > 1960 and 1967 someone stole Platon's 'n'.
>
> I'm sorry to hear that. On behalf of all anglophones (who have given
> me permission to speak on their behalf), I apologize to the
> speakers of Dutch. And to Platon and Pyrrhon, whose names were
> unceremoniously truncated by the lazy English tongue.
>
> > The French and Germans guarded the
> > 'n' against all lingual intrusions. They also purified their
> > computerprograms from anglophone influence. The French even
> > didn't accept the word 'computer' but insisted on 'ordinateur'.
>
> The French are always so sensible in linguistic matters, although
> not always as sensible as the Quebecois, who guard their language
> from English incursions even more assiduously than the French.
>
> > It's like the Punjabi habit of dropping the 'a' at the and of
> > words, which thurns Buddha into Buddh, while the Bengalis on the
> > other hand talk about Buddho.
>
> The people of the southern regions of India compensate for this by
> retaining the 'a' and adding an 'n'. So there we can find Raman and
> Krishnan and perhaps even Buddhan and Platon. (Or do they add
> an 'n' to arrive at Platonn?)
>
> By the way, are you people in Holland mourning the loss of one of
> our favourite planets, Pluton? Myself, I think it's only right to
> decide that Pluto and Neptune are not planets, since neither of
> them is mentioned in the Pali Canon, which contains all truth.


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