Re: My name is Jyyneh Do'ughh

2004-06-29 Thread ken
Padraig MacIain wrote: On Sat, Jun 26, 2004 at 10:13:00PM -0700, Major Variola (ret) wrote: How do you spell John Smith in Gaelic? In G`idhlig (Scottish Gaelic) it'd be at least starting as 'Iain' (which is the Gaelized John). The modern Scottish equivalent to John Smith would be Iain Gow. (Th

Re: My name is Jyyneh Do'ughh

2004-06-28 Thread Padraig MacIain
On Sat, Jun 26, 2004 at 10:13:00PM -0700, Major Variola (ret) wrote: > > Gaelic looks like 7-ASCII-bit line noise to me. A Gaelic name could be > created > which clueless fascists would assume the spelling of, but the > correct spelling would be fairly far (in some linguistic Hamming metric) > >

My name is Jyyneh Do'ughh

2004-06-27 Thread Major Variola (ret)
Gaelic looks like 7-ASCII-bit line noise to me. A Gaelic name could be created which clueless fascists would assume the spelling of, but the correct spelling would be fairly far (in some linguistic Hamming metric) from the assumed spelling. How do you spell John Smith in Gaelic? Just a thought