Nothing is banned. The point is it wasn't an "English" word.
Tom Send a noteboard - 04/01/2012 02:38:22 PM
Tolkien just made such a studious effort to avoid words that came from Latin and Greek. I read the wikipedia article and apparently he had convinced himself that the word "orc" wasn't really from Latin, though modern consensus is that he was wrong on that point.
After all, Paradisum was an Old English word but I don't think that Tolkien would want to use it in his works, knowing that it was a loan-word.
After all, Paradisum was an Old English word but I don't think that Tolkien would want to use it in his works, knowing that it was a loan-word.
Political correctness is the pettiest form of casuistry.
ἡ δὲ κἀκ τριῶν τρυπημάτων ἐργαζομένη ἐνεκάλει τῇ φύσει, δυσφορουμένη, ὅτι δὴ μὴ καὶ τοὺς τιτθοὺς αὐτῇ εὐρύτερον ἢ νῦν εἰσι τρυπώη, ὅπως καὶ ἄλλην ἐνταῦθα μίξιν ἐπιτεχνᾶσθαι δυνατὴ εἴη. – Procopius
Ummaka qinnassa nīk!
*MySmiley*
ἡ δὲ κἀκ τριῶν τρυπημάτων ἐργαζομένη ἐνεκάλει τῇ φύσει, δυσφορουμένη, ὅτι δὴ μὴ καὶ τοὺς τιτθοὺς αὐτῇ εὐρύτερον ἢ νῦν εἰσι τρυπώη, ὅπως καὶ ἄλλην ἐνταῦθα μίξιν ἐπιτεχνᾶσθαι δυνατὴ εἴη. – Procopius
Ummaka qinnassa nīk!
*MySmiley*
The OED word of the day
03/01/2012 12:13:45 PM
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Tolkien really broke with principles on that one.
03/01/2012 02:47:27 PM
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According to him, he was reviving the Old English word for "demon".
03/01/2012 06:35:49 PM
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Which, in turn, is from the Latin Orcus.
03/01/2012 06:49:33 PM
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And then there's Ariosto's orcs
03/01/2012 07:16:15 PM
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I had to buy that in paperback from amazon.it... *NM*
03/01/2012 10:44:39 PM
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I got the Italian edition for free on my Kindle for iPad
03/01/2012 11:01:15 PM
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I just can't read books on e-readers. I tried with my iPad, I tried with my wife's Kindle.
03/01/2012 11:11:06 PM
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Nonetheless, it was a word in Old English.
04/01/2012 11:12:39 AM
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Nothing is banned. The point is it wasn't an "English" word.
04/01/2012 02:38:22 PM
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