Re: [conculture] Rasism and xenophoby

[Padraic Brown <pbrown@polaris.umuc.edu>]

From: Padraic Brown <pbrown@polaris.umuc.edu>

On Mon, 7 Jun 1999, Andrew Smith wrote:

> From: Andrew Smith <hobbit@mail.earthlight.co.nz>
> 
> On Sun, 6 Jun 1999, Padraic Brown wrote:

> > > Urath per nu agur e a lla ur di nustr morth.
> > 
> > Well we (mum and I) got there all of one thin minute before they closed
> > the casket.  Well, that's what 80mph over about 400 miles gets you.  It
> > seems I lied: It's actually still more or less Saturday night.  I take it
> > the above is what a Comrow would utter when told of someone's death?  A
> > pleasant sounding custom, says I. 
> > 


> 
> It is actually a translation of the petition from the Hail-Mary, a
> petition I quite often find myself using as a memorial for the dead.
> Perhaps the Chomro _do_ use it as a mark of respect for the dead.  It has
> wonderful assonance in Brithenig.

Why not?  Something like: "Agur ke barol dy di Oncyl Iewen (urpernuagur),
ys..."  The English equivalent, of course: "Now that you mention Uncle
John (mayherestinpeace), he..."

Padraic.

> 
> The petition to Saeth Mair would be 'Ur per nu...'
> 
> - andrew.
> 
> Andrew Smith, Intheologus 			hobbit@earthlight.co.nz
> 
> 	Lo! thy dread empire, Chaos! is restored;
> 	Light dies before thy uncreating word:
> 	Thy hand, great Anarch! lets the curtain fall;
> 	And Universal Darkness buries All.
> 			- Alexander Pope, The Dunciad, Book IV.
> 
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