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Dim is a Welsh word meaning nothing. And in the rhyme it indicates that in a word beginning with G, the G will change to nothing (i.e. the G will disappear). Thus garreg (rock) becomes yr arreg (the rock). Sounds weird but Welsh is actually a nice logical language, unlike English. I just wish I could remember more of it.
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Interesting, thanks. Almost as interesting as some bloke with a Scottish name being born in India and learning Welsh at a young age.
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And lived in Turkey for two years, learning some of that language also.
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But the thorn (or thurs, capital Þ minuscule þ) doesn't look like a Y at all.
The Kaun or ᚴ, in medieval runes does though. I think someone messed up again.
Wrong is evil and must be defeated. - Jeff Ello
Never stop dreaming - Freddie Kruger
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Franklin: "the purfuit of happineff"?
Jefferson: "the pursuit of happiness"
Franklin: all your Ss look like Fs!
Jefferson: it's stylish, it's "in", very "in"
(From "Stan Freberg Presents the United States of America Volume One: The Early Years")
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PIEBALDconsult wrote: happineff
According to the rules in Chris' link, shouldn't that be "happineſs"?
(Unless it's the 2006 version, in which case it should be "happyneſs".)
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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What I wonder is why Spiderman used to print and sell Paradiſe Loſt!
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Exactly what I wanted to comment...
Anything that is unrelated to elephants is irrelephant Anonymous
- The problem with quotes on the internet is that you can never tell if they're genuine Winston Churchill, 1944
- Never argue with a fool. Onlookers may not be able to tell the difference. Mark Twain
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Very interesting Chris. Thanks a lot for the link.
Anything that is unrelated to elephants is irrelephant Anonymous
- The problem with quotes on the internet is that you can never tell if they're genuine Winston Churchill, 1944
- Never argue with a fool. Onlookers may not be able to tell the difference. Mark Twain
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Was Bonnie Prince Charlie was the only man ever named after three sheepdogs?
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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You have an uncanine sense of irony. Perhaps you can fetch up some further thoughts on "The Roils" whilst I paws for a coffee break.
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"The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." - Albert Einstein | "If you are searching for perfection in others, then you seek disappointment. If you seek perfection in yourself, then you will find failure." - Balboos HaGadol Mar 2010 |
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was-not-was
"If we don't change direction, we'll end up where we're going"
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Superfluous was in there old bean
"I didn't mention the bats - he'd see them soon enough" - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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Largely for historical reasons, I run a (VPOP-3) mail server on my home network, which downloads all the email from the various outside mailboxes my wife and I use using POP3 and puts it in one local mailbox for each of us. The other evening, my wife was getting a new credit card, and was (repeatedly) not receiving a message sent by the bank with an attachment that she needed to 'sign'. We ruled out it being spam-trapped locally, and it eventually occurred to me to login to webmail for the MidPhase-hosted mailbox to which it was being sent and check there.
It turned out that the message had been spam-trapped there by a system that must have been introduced without warning (relatively) recently. It also turned out that there were a lot of other messages in both of our accounts there that had been incorrectly spam-trapped - mostly mailing list and advertising type ones which my system would have trapped, but also some receipts and shipping notices.
It was not obvious how to turn off spam trapping in the mailbox's Settings, so I contacted MidPhase Support, only to be told that it could not be disabled. I think that I have found a workaround (though the tech said that he didn't think that it would work), but I am posting to warn others whose email may be hosted by MidPhase about this problem. If you use their webmail, you just have to check the spam folder, and the same is presumably true if your client uses IMAP, but if you get your mail via POP3, be warned!
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Even the useless twits at outlook.com repeatedly redirect stuff to my online spam folder, despite it being whitelisted.
It just proves the Pareto principle that only 20% of anything is truly good, which means that 64% of everything is shite!
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Greg Utas wrote: 64% of everything is shite Is that one of the 41% of statistics that are completely made up ?
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You delegate your responsibilities (.com) and expect perfection?
It was only in wine that he laid down no limit for himself, but he did not allow himself to be confused by it.
― Confucian Analects: Rules of Confucius about his food
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And the other 16% ?
"I didn't mention the bats - he'd see them soon enough" - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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Acceptable.
20% good leaves 80%, of which 20% (=16%) must be OK, leaving 64% shite.
Similarly, 20% of the good 20% (=4%) is excellent.
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Is it possible to be more cynical?
It was only in wine that he laid down no limit for himself, but he did not allow himself to be confused by it.
― Confucian Analects: Rules of Confucius about his food
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Is it possible to be more cynical? Evil
To err is human to really mess up you need a computer
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Come come, it's just an addiction
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