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OP From Gulliver's Travels by J. Swift "Brobdingnagian" and "Lilliputian" are (of course) words for very large and very small respectively.
Does anyone care to take a guess at what the appropriate adjectival forms for "Houyhnhnm" and "Laputa" might be?
In case your memory needs to be jogged, Houyhnhnm is the land of the loathsome yahoos ruled by a race of horses endowed with superior powers of reasoning.
Laputa is the floating island where the inhabitants are maniacally devoted to a life of fantastically impractical projects for the advancement of speculative knowledge.
I would go with "Houyhnhnmous wisdom" and "Laputan absurdity" myself. Maybe "Laputanesque".
What do you think?
Entire Thread Subject Posted By Posted A Laputanesque or Houyhnhnmous question? Homo Loquens 10/12/05 02:32 PM Re: A Laputanesque or Houyhnhnmous question? Jackie 10/12/05 05:54 PM Re: A Laputanesque or Houyhnhnmous question? belMarduk 10/12/05 06:23 PM Houyhnhnmous pronounced wofahulicodoc 10/13/05 12:12 AM Re: Houyhnhnmous pronounced wofahulicodoc 10/13/05 12:30 AM Pronunciation Homo Loquens 10/13/05 04:10 AM Re: Pronunciation Buffalo Shrdlu 10/13/05 09:08 AM Re: Pronunciation TEd Remington 10/13/05 11:22 AM Re: Pronunciation Father Steve 10/13/05 12:04 PM Re: Pronunciation zmjezhd 10/13/05 12:06 PM Re: Pronunciation Buffalo Shrdlu 10/13/05 12:17 PM Re: Pronunciation belMarduk 10/13/05 01:01 PM Re: Pronunciation inselpeter 10/13/05 01:39 PM
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