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Previous Thread Next Thread Print Thread Page 2 of 4 1 2 3 4 Re: bozo #147689 09/10/05 12:29 AM Joined: Mar 2001 Posts: 2,379 New York City I inselpeter Pooh-Bah inselpeter Pooh-Bah I Joined: Mar 2001 Posts: 2,379 New York City >>noun followed<< That's what I thought too. Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: bozo #147690 09/15/05 12:42 PM Joined: Sep 2005 Posts: 4 D deaconb stranger deaconb stranger D Joined: Sep 2005 Posts: 4 Actually, the expression of elation came second. If you remember Superman comic books, Clark Kent's boss, Perry White, was given to exclaming "Great Jehoshaphat!" Yahoo is Swift's corruption of Jehu, a king of Israel, the son of Jehoshaphat. 2 Kings 9:20 And the watchman told, saying, He came even unto them, and cometh not again: and the driving is like the driving of Jehu the son of Nimshi; for he driveth furiously. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jehu Hurray comes from hurrah, which comes from huzzah, which apparently comes from the middle English hisse, which means "hoist"! Snardles, there are a lot of meaningless sounds used as expletives, aren't there? ----- Words fail me. (Turnabout is fair play.) ----- Words fail me. (Turnabout is fair play.) Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: bozo #147691 09/15/05 12:48 PM Joined: Sep 2000 Posts: 2,891 B belMarduk OP Carpal Tunnel OP belMarduk Carpal Tunnel B Joined: Sep 2000 Posts: 2,891 >>>Yahoo is Swift's corruption of Jehu, a king of Israel, the son of Jehoshaphat. Can you explain that deaconb? I don't see why that would be. Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: bozo #147692 09/15/05 02:21 PM Joined: Mar 2001 Posts: 2,379 New York City I inselpeter Pooh-Bah inselpeter Pooh-Bah I Joined: Mar 2001 Posts: 2,379 New York City J=Y (as in Jehova/Yaweh) [/did I interrupt?] Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: bozo #147693 09/15/05 02:31 PM Joined: Sep 2000 Posts: 2,891 B belMarduk OP Carpal Tunnel OP belMarduk Carpal Tunnel B Joined: Sep 2000 Posts: 2,891 >>>Yahoo is Swift's corruption of Jehu, a king of Israel, the son of Jehoshaphat. Can you explain that deaconb? I don't see why that would be. J=Y (as in Jehova/Yaweh) [/did I interrupt?] No, no, not at all Insel. I can grasp what he's saying, I just don't understand why the leap was made to say that this is what Swift did. Why would we assume that Swift corrupted the name Jehu to create yahoo? It sound like one of those explanations that people use when they try to explain a word by saying it used to be an acronym for something, but you find it really wasn't. Was Swift well-known for flipping through the bible to find words to corrupt and invent meanings for? Maybe he was, I don't know, I don't read Swift. Maybe it is my perverse need to, (arrgh, what's the word in English for "décortiquer"?) ... need to sort things out until it makes sense in my mind. This one doesn't seem to make sense, so I asked. Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: bozo #147694 09/15/05 05:26 PM Joined: Mar 2001 Posts: 2,379 New York City I inselpeter Pooh-Bah inselpeter Pooh-Bah I Joined: Mar 2001 Posts: 2,379 New York City According to google, décortiquer translates "to peel". Maybe you mean to scrutinize, to parse...? As to your actual question, all I can say is it's good. Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: bozo #147695 09/15/05 05:46 PM Joined: Oct 2000 Posts: 5,400 rego park of troy Carpal Tunnel of troy Carpal Tunnel Joined: Oct 2000 Posts: 5,400 rego park looking at the scriture quote, and thinking about bel's question, were "mad drivers' or hurried, inconsiderate, or hurried scatter-brains called or likened to Jahu? (and this is perhaps why Swift made a race in one of the lands Gulliver 'travelled" to Yahoo's? we still say "he has the patience of Job" --were careless or hasty people likened to Jaho? (he dashed about like Jaho?) is this an expression that has simple fallen from use? --or one that was transformed by Gullivers travels from Jaho to Yahoo? there are still, seen in print, reference to farthings. (a coin i remember, but most of the world doesn't) and sou--(an old low value coin of France) is still used in crossword puzzles, even if "i don't give a sou!" is pretty rare. Kids in US schools still learn about the MAINE--(and i think of MAINE first when presented with Remember the_______--though the more common answer is Alamo but very few (how sad) know who to remember when The Rueben James is mentioned. things fall from collective memory. my other obsession Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: bozo #147696 09/15/05 05:46 PM Joined: Jun 2002 Posts: 7,210 Vermont Buffalo Shrdlu Carpal Tunnel Buffalo Shrdlu Carpal Tunnel Joined: Jun 2002 Posts: 7,210 Vermont > arrgh, what's the word in English for "décortiquer"? grok? (and ain't International Speak Like a Pirate Day coming up?) formerly known as etaoin... Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Aarrrr #147697 09/15/05 06:53 PM Joined: Mar 2000 Posts: 6,511 lower upstate New York AnnaStrophic Carpal Tunnel AnnaStrophic Carpal Tunnel Joined: Mar 2000 Posts: 6,511 lower upstate New York Good catch, eta! It's September 19: http://www.talklikeapirate.com/ Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: Aarrrr #147698 09/15/05 07:38 PM Joined: Jun 2002 Posts: 7,210 Vermont Buffalo Shrdlu Carpal Tunnel Buffalo Shrdlu Carpal Tunnel Joined: Jun 2002 Posts: 7,210 Vermont done smartly, me lass! formerly known as etaoin... Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Page 2 of 4 1 2 3 4 Moderated by  Jackie  Hop To General Topics ------  Information and announcements  Q&A about words  Wordplay and fun  Words and languages in schools  Miscellany  Weekly Themes  Looking for (writers, speakers,... (Old) Weekly themes. 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