On 17/06/12 12:08, Tim Golden wrote:
Since we're on the subject -- although going increasingly off it -- I
very much recommend an article by the retired teacher who translated
Harry Potter into classical Greek. Obviously it's interesting to see
what he's done with modern words. But what's particu
On 17/06/2012 11:56, Richard Smedley wrote:
On 17/06/12 11:29, Tim Golden wrote:
I would also point you towards the Vatican's dictionary of modern-day
Latin (which it needs for documents which reference "astronaut",
"television" and, presumably, "scanning electron microscope"). This is
the Itali
On 17/06/12 11:29, Tim Golden wrote:
I would also point you towards the Vatican's dictionary of modern-day
Latin (which it needs for documents which reference "astronaut",
"television" and, presumably, "scanning electron microscope"). This is
the Italian version. I'm sure you get the idea.
http
On 17/06/2012 10:24, Richard Smedley wrote:
On 17/06/12 10:01, Gadget/Steve wrote:
If you need a complete, always up to date, dictionary then you need to
work in a dead language like Latin - no new words introduced for over a
thousand years AFAIK or an artificial one, e.g. Esperanto where a
comm
On 17/06/12 10:01, Gadget/Steve wrote:
If you need a complete, always up to date, dictionary then you need to
work in a dead language like Latin - no new words introduced for over a
thousand years AFAIK or an artificial one, e.g. Esperanto where a
committee or other authority specifies which word
On 16/06/2012 11:19 PM, Carles Pina i Estany wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Jun/16/2012, Carles Pina i Estany wrote:
>
>>> How about:
>>> ems -> emu -> emo -> ego -> ago
>>>
>>> Got to admit that it took the online OED to come up with emo but it is
>>> in there.
> I also have to admin: I saw this mail in
