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Tuesday 2006-07-18

too much lisp

I was thinking about what we should encourage Child to call the grandparents-to-be, and it suddenly occurred to me: if we were to revive the rather old-fashioned words "Grandpapa" and "Grandmama", we could tweak them to disambiguate between maternal and paternal grandparents: you have Grandmama and Grandmapa, and Grandpama and Grandpapa. And, even better, this gives a simple way of referring to people further up the tree: Grandmamapama, etc.

meta-translation

Emma: ... and he said, And so we say, not goodbye but ... um, what's the French for "auf wiedersehen"?.
Gareth R: The French for "auf wiedersehen" is "hasta la vista".

book nineteen

J L Mackie's The miracle of theism gives theism a pretty fair hearing but finds it seriously wanting. Mackie's book is showing its age a bit now, but is still well worth reading for anyone interested in the subject.