From: Patrick Ryan
Message: 42011
Date: 2005-11-10
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From: "glen gordon" <glengordon01@...>
To: <cybalist@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Thursday, November 10, 2005 12:47 AM
Subject: The word "loon" (was: Re: [tied] Re: Also an Austro-Asiatic
Disconnect)
> Patrick:
> > It is 'loon' rather than your ignorantly misspelled
> > "lune".
>
> Actually, the basis of the word "loon" is "lunatic"
> which is naturally related to the French word "lune",
> the implication being that crazy people are driven
> to madness by way of the moon. We now know that the
> likelier causes for the apparent madness may be
> things like drug intoxication or endogenous chemical
> imbalances.
>
>
> = gLeN
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Patrick:
More ignorance from the tag-team. How well suited they are to each other.
'Loon' is derived from 'loon', a bird with a call that sounds like a crazy
laugh.
French <lune> has a different etymology altogether.
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