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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.
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!

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The OED word of the day - 03/01/2012 12:13:45 PM 535 Views
Very good. - 03/01/2012 02:20:29 PM 502 Views
Tolkien really broke with principles on that one. - 03/01/2012 02:47:27 PM 432 Views
According to him, he was reviving the Old English word for "demon". - 03/01/2012 06:35:49 PM 443 Views
Which, in turn, is from the Latin Orcus. - 03/01/2012 06:49:33 PM 426 Views
And then there's Ariosto's orcs - 03/01/2012 07:16:15 PM 400 Views
I had to buy that in paperback from amazon.it... *NM* - 03/01/2012 10:44:39 PM 149 Views
I got the Italian edition for free on my Kindle for iPad - 03/01/2012 11:01:15 PM 338 Views
Ends up coming from ορκος (Oath) I think. *NM* - 03/01/2012 07:23:42 PM 226 Views
I don't think that's likely. - 03/01/2012 10:44:15 PM 373 Views
And looking at my dictionary... - 03/01/2012 10:47:16 PM 349 Views
Nonetheless, it was a word in Old English. - 04/01/2012 11:12:39 AM 401 Views
Nothing is banned. The point is it wasn't an "English" word. - 04/01/2012 02:38:22 PM 413 Views

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