Comments on: Bernie Madoff with our Dough http://www.alphadictionary.com/blog/?p=267 A Blog about Words and Language(s) from alphaDictionary.com Tue, 21 May 2013 19:53:31 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.6 By: זיקלר http://www.alphadictionary.com/blog/?p=267&cpage=1#comment-469367 זיקלר Mon, 06 Aug 2012 08:33:51 +0000 http://www.alphadictionary.com/blog/?p=267#comment-469367 I beloved up to you will obtain performed proper here. The caricature is tasteful, your authored material stylish. nevertheless, you command get got an impatience over that you want be handing over the following. ill definitely come further earlier again since exactly the similar nearly very often within case you defend this increase. I beloved up to you will obtain performed proper here. The caricature is tasteful, your authored material stylish. nevertheless, you command get got an impatience over that you want be handing over the following. ill definitely come further earlier again since exactly the similar nearly very often within case you defend this increase.

]]> By: Stephen http://www.alphadictionary.com/blog/?p=267&cpage=1#comment-127272 Stephen Thu, 02 Apr 2009 23:21:06 +0000 http://www.alphadictionary.com/blog/?p=267#comment-127272 "The name is the father of the man" I posted yesterday that people's names indicate their nature. "Madoff with the money" is an example. I said they sometimes cross languages, and today there is an example. Anyone in Brazil hearing Gov. Blagojevich was indicted for corruption would laugh as if at the obvious: in his argot, "blague", pronounced "blag", means a type of talk designed to deceive. And we all know the rest of the name is only generic suffixes. “The name is the father of the man”

I posted yesterday that people’s names indicate their nature.
“Madoff with the money” is an example.
I said they sometimes cross languages, and today there is an example.
Anyone in Brazil hearing Gov. Blagojevich was indicted for corruption would laugh as if at the obvious: in his argot, “blague”, pronounced “blag”, means a type of talk designed to deceive.
And we all know the rest of the name is only generic suffixes.

]]> By: Stephen http://www.alphadictionary.com/blog/?p=267&cpage=1#comment-127164 Stephen Tue, 31 Mar 2009 16:38:12 +0000 http://www.alphadictionary.com/blog/?p=267#comment-127164 1) Bernie Madoff - It has long been my theory that people identify in their names their true character. When I heard it, Madoff seemed a classic example. Perhaps listening to that sound every day subliminally makes a person comply with the trait indicated by his name. To the Author of 100 Funniest Words: A book on this would be good. It works across languages - if I remember, occasionally a name in Portuguese (my 2nd language) gives a pun clue in English or vice versa. But mainly it's direct. My name is Fry - havent yet discovered how this applies to me. Perhaps I will screw everything up (or already have). But my brothers and family are super-successful. Maybe it means free (German) - we are all free spirits. 2) Could the author of 100 Funniest Words also do a book of 100 most wonderful english expressions? e.g. to Throw a Wobbly I could make a collection of charming expressions in Brazilian Portuguese. - eg. Gatos Pingados (dripped cats) If at an event only a few people turned up or were left over at the end, you can say : just a few gatos pingados = .. dripped cats ! Portuguese in Brazil has many such very neat expressions England's Raining Cats and Dogs is not quite so neat .. Perhaps a worldwide collection could be made Portuguese has several prettily illustrative words e.g. Graca (c cedilha always) is the grace of god and also personal grace, and also indicates >humor: Gracas a Deus is Thanks be to God But if something "tem graca" - it means " it is funny" "Nao tem graca" is " that's not funny" A keynote memory is finding the word Engracado means Funny in other words it is graceful to be funny: being funny continues to the Grace of Life.. I thought: what a nice civilized basis for the civilization of a country/people! Stephen Fry sf@miracleread.com 1) Bernie Madoff -
It has long been my theory that people identify in their names their true character. When I heard it, Madoff seemed a classic example.
Perhaps listening to that sound every day subliminally makes a person comply with the trait indicated by his name.
To the Author of 100 Funniest Words: A book on this would be good.
It works across languages – if I remember, occasionally a name in Portuguese (my 2nd language) gives a pun clue in English or vice versa. But mainly it’s direct.
My name is Fry – havent yet discovered how this applies to me. Perhaps I will screw everything up (or already have). But my brothers and family are super-successful. Maybe it means free (German) – we are all free spirits.

2) Could the author of 100 Funniest Words also do a book of
100 most wonderful english expressions?
e.g. to Throw a Wobbly
I could make a collection of charming expressions in Brazilian Portuguese. – eg. Gatos Pingados (dripped cats)
If at an event only a few people turned up or were left over at the end, you can say : just a few gatos pingados = .. dripped cats !
Portuguese in Brazil has many such very neat expressions
England’s Raining Cats and Dogs is not quite so neat ..

Perhaps a worldwide collection could be made

Portuguese has several prettily illustrative words
e.g. Graca (c cedilha always) is the grace of god and also personal grace, and also indicates >humor:
Gracas a Deus is Thanks be to God
But if something “tem graca” – it means ” it is funny”
“Nao tem graca” is ” that’s not funny”
A keynote memory is finding the word Engracado means Funny
in other words it is graceful to be funny: being funny continues to the Grace of Life..
I thought: what a nice civilized basis for the civilization of a country/people!

Stephen Fry
sf@miracleread.com

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