Re: Identity of the 'language of geminates'

At 12:39:41 PM on Thursday, October 16, 2008, tgpedersen
wrote:

> from the same article
> Tom Markey
> A Tale of Two Helmets: The Negau A and B Inscriptions, pp
> 84-85

[...]

> Categorically, Rix (1992:425) contends that all acrophonic
> rune names must be Germanic, for otherwise they could not
> have functioned as mnemonic prompts, but just how
> transparently English is mnemonic eeny, meeny, miney, moe
> = 'one, two, three, four'?

He's letting his indignation get the better of him: 'eeny,
meeny, miney, moe' *isn't* a mnemonic prompt for anything.

Brian