XPost: alt.usage.english   
   From: rh@rudhar.com   
      
   Sun, 7 Jul 2024 12:46:57 -0700: HenHanna    
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   >On 7/7/2024 9:55 AM, Aidan Kehoe wrote:   
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   >>   Ar an seachtú lá de mí Iúil, scríobh Athel Cornish-Bowden:   
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   >>   > [...] In the case of Hebrew I was inclined to believe [PTD]. Possibly   
   >>   > unwise, as our world expert on writing had apparently forgotten that   
   >>   > Armenian doesn't use the Roman alphabet. He attacked me once for   
   writing a   
   >>   > name with -ian at the end, whereas he wanted -yan (or vice versa, I   
   don't   
   >>   > remember), apparently unaware that -ian and -yan are written in exactly   
   the   
   >>   > same way in Armenian. Consider ??????? (Mikoyan) and ?????????   
   >>   > (Khatchaturian).   
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   >PTD knew close to nothing about (spoken or written) Chinese, and   
   >yet.........   
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   >                    He did know a few esoteric factoids.   
   >                           (e.g.,  about the 2 chars for Butterfly)   
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   >> Slightly relatedly, the Iranian president-president-elect Pezeshkian,   
   ????????   
   >> has a transparently Armenian surname, with “pezeshk” the native Persian   
   word   
   >> for physician. Wikipedia reports he is Azeri and I imagine he is Shia, my   
   >> working guess is that one of his ancestors converted to Islam after the   
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   >> that surnames became obligatory.   
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   >> The Persian Wikipedia article lists him as a heart surgeon first, lots of   
   >> respect for physicians in that country.   
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   You would be slightly more readible if you avoid all those triple or   
   quadruple newlines.   
      
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   >sometimes i have this movie mixed up with another one   
   >                                      in whch a big German guy appears.   
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   >The movie "Elevator to the Gallows" (French: Ascenseur pour l'échafaud)   
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   >Julien Tavernier (Maurice Ronet)   
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   >            Tavernier is a French occupational surname meaning innkeeper.   
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   >  i had ths surname mixed up with another one that   
   >                            sounds  Persian or Iranian   
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   >Where does the name Travaglini come from?   
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   >Italian:         patronymic or plural form of a nickname from a   
   >diminutive of travaglio 'anguish, worry, distress' applied for a   
   >distressed person or from travagliare 'to work' applied for a hard   
   >worker or fatigued person.   
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