Re: Two questions

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Daniel J. Milton" wrote:

> 1) For our Romanian experts: What am I reading at
> http://www.hungary.com/corvinus/lib/chk/chk01.pdf
> or the corresponding html site?
> Some group in Hungary has put on the Web six chapters of a book
> on the origin of the Romanian language, but not the title page
> nor any explanation that I can find from their home page.

Check: http://www.hungary.com/corvinus/lib/chk/
There is something like "Vékony, G.: Dacians-Romans-Romanians".
The work follows the tradition of Hungarian histories of
Romanian language & people, especially Andre Du Nay's writings
[a well-known pseudonym]. Bias and several errors aside, the
work still provides a lot of good informations, but they have
to be checked up.

> 2) A challenge for our Latinists: Abdullah says he made a
> lapsus calami for "strangler". I don't believe his reed pen
> slipped -- I think he hit the keys on his keyboard wrongly.
> Can we come up with up-to-date term in proper Latin?

strangulo -are ?! :-)

Regards,
Marius Iacomi