Re: Anne Lister's coded diaries

Sun, 7 Jul 2024 12:46:57 -0700: HenHanna <HenHanna@devnull.tb>
scribeva:

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On 7/7/2024 9:55 AM, Aidan Kehoe wrote:

 
  Ar an seachtú lá de mí Iúil, scríobh Athel Cornish-Bowden:
 
  > [...] In the case of Hebrew I was inclined to believe [PTD]. Possibly
  > unwise, as our world expert on writing had apparently forgotten that
  > Armenian doesn't use the Roman alphabet. He attacked me once for writing a
  > name with -ian at the end, whereas he wanted -yan (or vice versa, I don't
  > remember), apparently unaware that -ian and -yan are written in exactly the
  > same way in Armenian. Consider ??????? (Mikoyan) and ?????????
  > (Khatchaturian).

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PTD knew close to nothing about (spoken or written) Chinese, and
yet.........
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                   He did know a few esoteric factoids.
                          (e.g.,  about the 2 chars for Butterfly)
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Slightly relatedly, the Iranian president-president-elect Pezeshkian, ????????
has a transparently Armenian surname, with “pezeshk” the native Persian word
for physician. Wikipedia reports he is Azeri and I imagine he is Shia, my
working guess is that one of his ancestors converted to Islam after the point
that surnames became obligatory.
 
The Persian Wikipedia article lists him as a heart surgeon first, lots of
respect for physicians in that country.
 

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You would be slightly more readible if you avoid all those triple or
quadruple newlines.

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sometimes i have this movie mixed up with another one
                                     in whch a big German guy appears.
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The movie "Elevator to the Gallows" (French: Ascenseur pour l'échafaud)
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Julien Tavernier (Maurice Ronet)
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           Tavernier is a French occupational surname meaning innkeeper.
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 i had ths surname mixed up with another one that
                           sounds  Persian or Iranian
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Where does the name Travaglini come from?
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Italian:         patronymic or plural form of a nickname from a
diminutive of travaglio 'anguish, worry, distress' applied for a
distressed person or from travagliare 'to work' applied for a hard
worker or fatigued person.
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