[lit-ideas] Re: Hoho
- From: "Walter C. Okshevsky" <wokshevs@xxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx, Julie Krueger <juliereneb@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 8 Jan 2012 08:27:32 -0330
I tell ya, you can do a PhD dissertation on almost anything these days.
I forgot to mention that our dog, Laika, is fluently bilingual: she goes
"bow-wow" and sometimes "gav-gav."
Walter O.
P.S. If a dog barks in the forest and there's nobody around to hear it, is she
barking? In which language? (Robert Brandom is loving this!)
P.P.S. If a tree falls on a philosopher in the forest, does anybody care? (My
students' version.)
P.P.P.S. Shoot, I thought I had something on Witter's talking lion, but I now
forgets.
Quoting Julie Krueger <juliereneb@xxxxxxxxx>:
> http://www.eleceng.adelaide.edu.au/personal/dabbott/animal.html
>
> http://matadornetwork.com/notebook/animal-noises-around-the-world/
>
>
> Julie Krueger
>
>
>
>
> On Fri, Jan 6, 2012 at 4:53 AM, Walter C. Okshevsky <wokshevs@xxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > Don't know about Santa, but I've never met a Russian, German or French
> > rooster
> > that went "cockle-doodle-doo." In our house, they go "kee-kee-ree-kee."
> >
> > Celebrating difference,
> >
> > Walter O
> >
> >
> > Quoting Lawrence Helm <lawrencehelm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
> >
> > > JL,
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > Santa Claus goes "hoho," but does he do that throughout Europe and South
> > > America or just in North America, and did this term perhaps come from
> the
> > > Iroquois of New York who for a time were the most powerful force in our
> > > North East?
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > In a footnote in The Conspiracy of Pontiac, Francis Parkman writes "In
> > the
> > > year 1745, August Gottlieb Spangenburg, a bishop of the United Brethren,
> > > spent several weeks in Onandaga, and frequently attended the great
> > Council
> > > [of all the Iroquois Nations and tribes]. The council-house was built
> of
> > > bark. On each side six seats were placed, each containing six persons.
> > No
> > > one was admitted besides the members of the council, except a few, who
> > were
> > > particularly honored. If one rose to speak, all the rest sat in
> profound
> > > silence, smoking their pipes. The speaker uttered his words in a
> singing
> > > tone, always rising a few notes at the close of each sentence. Whatever
> > was
> > > pleasing to the council was confirmed by all with the word Nee, or Yes.
> > > And, at the end of each speech, the whole company joined in applauding
> > the
> > > speaker by calling Hoho. . ."
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > Lawrence
> > >
> > >
> >
> >
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