Re: American dialect of Brithenig

[andrew <hobbit@mail.earthlight.co.nz>]

On Tue, 3 Aug 1999, Padraic Brown wrote:

> 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.
>
the people who control the purse strings have not been very helpful
either.

I'm not sure if the equivalent of the European Space Agency *there* would
have pushed the exploration of space any further than the equivalent of
the National Aeronautics Space Administration has here.

> 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?  :) 
> 
I was thinking of "A Trans-Atlantic Tunnel, ......!"

- andrew.
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Andrew Smith, Intheologus 			hobbit@earthlight.co.nz