[lit-ideas] Griceian Liquidation
- From: "Luigi Speranza" <dmarc-noreply@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> (Redacted sender "jlsperanza" for DMARC)
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- Date: Wed, 11 May 2016 21:32:47 -0400
On May 11, 2016, at 8:58 PM, Mike Geary <jejunejesuit.geary2@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Just kick back and let the Latin loose, luxuriate in the vowels and all the
liquid, sonorous sounds.
Strictly, as Putnam says,
i. Water is liquid.
Analytic a priori (ice ain't water).
ii. This phoneme is liquid.
carries an implicature.
Due to Thrax.
According to Griceian philosopher Dionysius Thrax the consonants /l,r,m,n/,
phonemes of classical Greek, were, as he waxed poetic, ὑγρόi, "moist."
Most Griceian commentators assume that this referred to their "slippery" effect
on meter in classical Greek verse when they occur as the second member of a
consonant cluster.
This word was calqued into Latin as liquidus, whence it has been retained in
the Western European phonetic tradition.
For Thrax, examples of Griceian liquidation were:
L
as in liquid.
R
as in rat.
M
as in marshmallow.
N
as in Nabucodonosor.
Thrax was possibly a genius. He adds, "It is not my intention to implicate that
'hygros' has more than one sense."
Cheers,
Speranza
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