Himnoj kaj himnologio

Subject: Himnoj kaj himnologio
From: Haruo
Date: 20 Aug 06 - 09:16 PM

I've started a new blog-style website on hymns and hymnology at himnologio.blogspot.com. It's in Esperanto and will probably be mostly about Esperanto hymnology, as the impetus for setting it up is the upcoming centennial of Esperanto Christian hymnody next year.

Although I will be posting mostly in Esperanto, readers are welcome to leave comments in other languages. If you have something you think ought to be a separate post there in its own right, email it to me and if I agree, I'll post it.

Haruo

Subject: RE: Himnoj kaj himnologio
From: catspaw49
Date: 20 Aug 06 - 09:42 PM

LOL!!!I'm sorry Haruo. Your site sounds fine but your thread title looks like some of the spam messages we've been getting here lately. Not knowing your language it looks like gibberish to me and that's exactly what the spam is...gibberish.

Good luck with your new site!

Spaw

Subject: RE: Himnoj kaj himnologio
From: Haruo
Date: 20 Aug 06 - 09:44 PM

Thanks, Spaw! I keep getting email in Turkish, which is a language I don't speak. No clue how I got on their list.

Haruo

Subject: RE: Himnoj kaj himnologio
From: Wolfgang
Date: 21 Aug 06 - 06:08 AM

I neither speak not read Esperanto but all components of the title are found in related English words which makes understanding the title easy.

Wolfgang

Subject: RE: Himnoj kaj himnologio
From: Haruo
Date: 21 Aug 06 - 11:19 AM

Thanks, Wolfgang. I agree that a literate native speaker of pretty much any major European language (as well as most of the minor ones and many non-European ones) shouldn't have too much difficulty guessing what the topic of "Himnoj kaj Himnologio" is. On the other hand, two components of the title are not found in English words to my knowledge: the final "-j" (plural marker, like English -s) in Himnoj, and the word "kaj" (and). Both of these are of Greek provenance. The -j corresponds to the final -i in "hoi polloi" but other than that I can't think off the top of my head of another English word containing it, and "kaj" strikes me as wholly unenglish.

Haruo
feeling detail-attentive

Subject: RE: Himnoj kaj himnologio
From: Nigel Parsons
Date: 21 Aug 06 - 11:35 AM

Koi carp?

Subject: RE: Himnoj kaj himnologio
From: Haruo
Date: 21 Aug 06 - 12:46 PM

Carpe nguyen? ;-)

No, the -i in hoi polloi are not cognate with the i in koi (animated-GIF calligraphic demo).

Haruo