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Thread #59418   Message #3173415
Posted By: Amos
20-Jun-11 - 02:26 PM
Thread Name: BS: The Mother of all BS threads
Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads
Raparree, you misunderstand the meaning of Antigonish completely.

I refer you, for example, to this excerpt from a linguistic blog:

"I live in Nova Scotia, and "AntigoNISH" is correct. Nothing to do with being against "goNISH" - the name is from an indigenous word (in Mi'gmaw, more commonly known as Micmac, an Algonkian language). (The "-i-" in "ant-i-gonish" could be misleading - "AN-tigga-NISH" would be a better rough transcription)."

Your narrow-minded insistence on applying Latinisms to the MicMac language made you fair game for my sarcasm about being "against the deluvians", a polite way of calling you extremely old-fashioned or antedeluvian, a relative of Noah's, or of one of his passengers.

Now that we have sharpened your sense of humor appropriately, I would like to remark that Little Hawk is over-exerting himself if he needs any of us to praise his unarguable brilliance. He has a complete cast of characters who work all day long to do this for him. No sense being insatiable, now, is there?

(I say his brilliance is unarguable, not because it is well-established fact, but because many years of trying experience have taught me the futility of any such argument.)

Just ask the lazy Canuck beer-head, or the disorientated giant Hamster, or the pseudo-blueblooded teenage ne'er-do-wellette, or the psychotic simian, or any of his other cast of thousands.