commentator mark steyn a go go

 

Browsing through the commentator Mark Steyn's website.

Some good stuff on it now that he's reinventing himself as an opponent of the Corona virus kabookie.

I seem to remember early on, he was in full panic mode, lots of "a dark tragedy is engulfing Italy" schtick and so on.

Why he was almost like one of those left wingers he's so sniffy about, yes like a left winger sensing a chance of international sovietised government.

Ho hum.

Of course I'd fallen out with him long before Fauci and Co invented the Covid 19 emergency.

I'd never really forgiven Mr Steyn for turning against the Bushwhacker when Donald Trump came along. 

And then there was the small matter of his repeated plagiarism from my own website.

Still, he's just about the best writer of prose English out there even when he's reduced to using his own ideas and not mine.

And occasionally he actually believes in things for longer than five minutes.

But lo!

What is this!

In the midst of a song parody jeering at the Prime Minister of Canada, Mr Steyn remarks that the singer Barry Manilow is best known for a song called Cocacabana.

No.

No by Gadfrey.

This is the last straw.

My fists clench and unclench.

Frivolously changing his views on what I deem the decisive Bushwhacker intervention to end Saddam Hussein's murderocracy in Iraq and then equally frivolously changing his views on what I call the induced Corona virus panic is one thing, okay two things, but this, this, this...

This is the final outrage.

It's.... it's... it's unholy.

This shall not stand.

For of course gentle travellers of the internet, Barry Manilow is not best known for Cocacabana.

Barry Manilow is indupitably best known for a song called Bermuda Triangle.

The song goes:

"My girl says why not go to Bermuda

I say: Woman are you mad.

Bermuda Triangle

Where people disappear

Bermuda Triangle

Don't go to near

Don't go to near.

But looking at it from my angle

Now I'm not so sad

Bermuda Triangle

Not so bad.

Ner ner ner

Ner ner ner

Ner ner ner ner ner. 

My girl she says to me

The world is in jeorpardy

It's gotten really bad

Why don't you read Mark Steyn?

I say: Woman are you mad?

Mark Steyn's website

Where principled consistencies disappear

Mark Steyn's website

Don't go too near

Don't go too near

But just occasionally

He steal his jokes from me

And then Mark Steyn's website

Not too bad

Ner ner ner

Ner  ner ner

Ner ner ner nerdle ner."

language as a proof of god

Postulation: One world language existed. Traces of it remain in all languages. These traces can be identified by similarities of vocabularic sound or grammatical mechanism arising within languages that have flourished in regions far distant geographically from each other. Where the same word exists for the same concept in vocabularies that can be shown to have originated before known contact between the speakers of the two languages, (and outside of the normal boundaries ascribed somewhat arbitrarily by linguists to possibly mythical proto languages such as Indo European) we might postulate that this word was once part of a single world language. The existence of a single world language in pre history would be a synchronicity with elements of the Bible.


Re (Ancient Egyptian) = Sun.
Ri (Chinese) = Sun.
Ray (English) = Beam of light.

Ni hao (Chinese) = Hello.
How (North American Indian) = Hello.

Puca (Irish) = Ghost spirit.
Poukah (Commanche Indian of North America) = Ghost or magic.
Puja (Hindu) = Ritual that can be proper or an invocation of evil.

Ma (Comanche Indian of North America) = hand.

Main (French) = Hand.

Henge (Old English) = Height.
Hen (Chinese) = Very.

Haine (French) = Hate.
Hen (Chinese) = Hate.

Ne (Chinese) = question particle.
Ne (Latin) = question particle.
Na (Zulu, southern African) = question particle.

La ma (Hebrew/Aramaic) = Why.
Le ma (Chinese) =  generic question particles with same function and action as the English "eh."

Ya (Russian) = I
Yo (Spanish) = I
Wo (Chinese) = I
Yahweh (Hebrew) = the holy people's name for God, which some suggest might be translated as "I am." The actual Hebrew words for "I am," are "Ei yeh."

Abba (Aramaic) = Father.
Baba (Chinse) = Father.
Papa (Italian) = Father

Na-hua-tl (Aztec) = Name of ancient Aztec language of Mexico.
Hua (Chinese) = Word for "speech" or "language." (A syllabic component approximating to "hua" is found in many names of North American tribes and languages such as Kiowa, Chiracahua, etc.)

Tao (Chinese) = To or towards or noun for path or verb for motion towards.
To (English) = To or towards.

Is mee (Arabic) = I am.
Is me (Irish pronounced "iss may.") = I am.

Dung (Korean) = excrement.
Dung (English) = excrement.

Tzin (Aztec Nathuatl)  = diminutive suffix, connoting endearment or smallness.
In  (Irish) = diminutive suffix pronounced "een" connoting endearment or smallness.
N (Chinese) = suffix which when added to "Ni" (you) to make it "Nin" (honorable you) connoting respect.

Teotl (Aztec Nahuatl) = God.
Dio (Italian) = God.
Di (Chinese) = Emperor. The Chinese for God is "Shang Di" meaning "Higher Emperor."

Dia (Irish) = God.

Dii (Latin) = Gods.

Khwaishen (Hindi) = wishes.
Wishes (English) = wishes.

Asi (Hindi) = like these.
Asi (Spanish) = thusly or in such manner or like this.

Y (Spanish) = conjunction, pronounced "ee," meaning "and."
i (Russian) = (written in Cyrillic script as a reversed capital n) conjunction, pronounced "ee," meaning "and."

Now (English) = can mean "at the present time" but also a conjectural mood word without a precise meaning for insertion in any sentence, as in "Well now I don't know," or "Now maybe you're right after all," or "Now what's all this about," or "Now some people think James Healy is the finest mind of a generation."

Nu (Old English)= Now, conjectural mood word.
Nu (Russian) = Conjectural mood word without precise meaning capable of insertion in any sentence.
Ne (Chinese) = Conjectural mood word.

Ocel (Russian) = donkey, pronounced "oh syel."
Asal (Irish) = donkey.

Kobilye (Russian) = horse.
Capal (Irish) = horse.

Tang (Chinese) = Sweet, soup, or scalding hot. (Meaning varies with intonational accent.)
Tang (English) = Taste, or slight taste, or slight evocative resonance or odour.

Eto (Russian) = This.
Esto (Spanish) = This.

Da (Chinese) = Word used to qualify certain verbs suggesting "doing" the action of the verb.
Do (English) = Word connoting action, ie "to do something," or affirmative reality of action of related verb, ie "I do run," "I do learn English," "I do swim." Past tense form can function as simple English past tense, ie "I did run."

Do (Irish) = To.

Do (Russian) = Up to or Until.

Dao (Chinese) = To or towards.

Hai (Hindi) = It is / You are.
Hai (Japanese) = Yes.
Ay Wa (Arabic) = Yes.
Aye (Old English, rural forms of modern English) = Yes.

Bu (Chinese) = No/not.

Boo (English) =  Usually a crowd cheer indicating disapproval.


Conclusion: The above similarities are the same words arising in widely dispersed languages to connote the same concept through the same action. They did not arise coincidentally or after modern contact between linguistic groups. They arose within those languages at some point in pre history. Therefore I am suggesting that at some point in pre history, all those languages were one.

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Footnote: I was attracted to the notion of a single world language by an enthusiasm for a literal reading of the Tower of Babel story in the Bible. In every language there is limitless beauty. This also is suggestive of God. If he really did scramble all the languages of the earth at the tower of Babel as a punishment for our pride, the result is indeed typical of him. A world filled with the unfathomably melodious ringing of endlessly diverse beautiful glorious languages. Even his punishments are gifts.

(First published 2012)