Re: Two questions

From: Daniel J. Milton
Message: 19434
Date: 2003-02-28

Thanks. I tried curtailing the address various ways, but somehow
not the right way.
Dan
--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "m_iacomi <m_iacomi@...>"
<m_iacomi@...> wrote:
> --- 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