Re: American dialect of Brithenig

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

On Tue, 3 Aug 1999, andrew wrote:

> 
> On Sun, 1 Aug 1999, Padraic Brown wrote:
> 
> > > details of them.  There may have been a cold war period between a NATO
> > > directed from the leadership of several western nations in competition
> > > with a Soviet block.  Great incentives for technology.  Manned flights to
> > > Jupiter, anyone?
> > 
> > Hurray!
> >
> I refer to a reference that I discovered once that NASA planned to have
> manned bases on the moon by 1975, on Mars or Venus by 1985, and on more
> distant planets by 2000.  But the slower technological pace may mean that
> it hasn't happened *there either.

There's been some discussion on some radio programmes as to why this has
not happened.  The moon trip itself seems to have been credited to a)
JFK's stirring exhortation b) rapid technological development and c) US
vs. USSR coldwar rivalry.  The lack of everything else has been credited
to a) no strong President exhorting the nation b) "been there done that"
attitude on the part of the country.

> 
> Shouldn't that be Hurrah!?

Should it?  We in Ter Mair only have "hurrah" in songs (When Johnny comes
marching home again, hurrah!, hurrah!"  Some say "huzzah!": is that close
enough?  :) 

> - andrew.
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> 
> 	Lo! thy dread empire, Chaos! is restored;
> 	Light dies before thy uncreating word:
> 	Thy hand, great Anarch! lets the curtain fall;
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