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<blockquote data-quote="BoldItalic" data-source="post: 7191195" data-attributes="member: 6777052"><p><span style="color: blue">The baby spectator floated unsteadily over to Ha!, crooned "mamma, mamma" and vomited over her smock in an endearing way. The others looked at her hopefully. Maybe it would become her problem?</span></p><p><span style="color: blue"></span></p><p><span style="color: blue">Ha! held out her stones. "Guard," she said, "Guard stones."</span></p><p><span style="color: blue"></span></p><p><span style="color: blue">"Croon. Stones. Baby guard <em>stones</em> for mamma. Gurgle."</span></p><p><span style="color: blue"></span></p><p><span style="color: blue">To test the arrangement, Ha! flung a stone a few feet away into the snow. The baby spectator followed it and hovered over it protectively. There seemed to be an understanding. It might only last for a hundred and one years, but that should be long enough. Probably.</span></p><p><span style="color: blue"></span></p><p><span style="color: blue">"Mušḫuššu," asked Mamma-Ha, "How would you say in Babylonian <em>baby spectator who guards the stones</em>?"</span></p><p><span style="color: blue"></span></p><p><span style="color: blue">"Well, in Sumerian, <em>kurum</em> is a watcher or guardian, <em>na</em> is a stone, and <em>tur</em> is a small child, so perhaps <em>turkurumna</em> would capture the essence of it," mused the dragon. "On the other hand, the word for 'eyes' is <em>igi</em>, so <em>igitur</em> would be 'little eyes' and that seems more appropriate. You could call it 'Iggy' for short?"</span></p><p><span style="color: blue"></span></p><p><span style="color: blue">"I like <em>Igitur</em>, offered Tippy. "I can do a naming ceremony, if you like?"</span></p><p><span style="color: blue"></span></p><p><span style="color: blue">"Alright, <em>Igitur</em> it is," agreed Ha!, "That's settled." and she told the baby its new name.</span></p><p><span style="color: blue"></span></p><p><span style="color: blue">"Let us therefore rejoice," intoned Tippy, "We name this infant <em>Igitur Turkurumna</em>. May it carry this name with pride and honour."</span></p><p><span style="color: blue"></span></p><p><span style="color: blue">"Iggy guard stones," crooned the happy infant.</span></p><p><span style="color: blue"></span></p><p><span style="color: blue">Meanwhile, Bar-De-Door and the orcs were ...</span></p><p></p><p>[HR][/HR]</p><p><span style="font-size: 9px">In case you think I was just making it up, there is a lexicon of Sumerian, the language spoken in ancient Babylon, at <a href="http://www.sumerian.org/sumerian.pdf" target="_blank">http://www.sumerian.org/sumerian.pdf</a>. By a pleasant co-incidence, if you translate Tippy's <em>Let us therefore rejoice</em> into Latin, you get the well-known student song <em>Gaudeamus <u>igitur</u></em>. Tippy was amusing himself by making a pun, even if no-one else understood it.</span></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="BoldItalic, post: 7191195, member: 6777052"] [COLOR=blue]The baby spectator floated unsteadily over to Ha!, crooned "mamma, mamma" and vomited over her smock in an endearing way. The others looked at her hopefully. Maybe it would become her problem? Ha! held out her stones. "Guard," she said, "Guard stones." "Croon. Stones. Baby guard [I]stones[/I] for mamma. Gurgle." To test the arrangement, Ha! flung a stone a few feet away into the snow. The baby spectator followed it and hovered over it protectively. There seemed to be an understanding. It might only last for a hundred and one years, but that should be long enough. Probably. "Mušḫuššu," asked Mamma-Ha, "How would you say in Babylonian [I]baby spectator who guards the stones[/I]?" "Well, in Sumerian, [I]kurum[/I] is a watcher or guardian, [I]na[/I] is a stone, and [I]tur[/I] is a small child, so perhaps [I]turkurumna[/I] would capture the essence of it," mused the dragon. "On the other hand, the word for 'eyes' is [I]igi[/I], so [I]igitur[/I] would be 'little eyes' and that seems more appropriate. You could call it 'Iggy' for short?" "I like [I]Igitur[/I], offered Tippy. "I can do a naming ceremony, if you like?" "Alright, [I]Igitur[/I] it is," agreed Ha!, "That's settled." and she told the baby its new name. "Let us therefore rejoice," intoned Tippy, "We name this infant [I]Igitur Turkurumna[/I]. May it carry this name with pride and honour." "Iggy guard stones," crooned the happy infant. Meanwhile, Bar-De-Door and the orcs were ...[/COLOR] [HR][/HR] [SIZE=1]In case you think I was just making it up, there is a lexicon of Sumerian, the language spoken in ancient Babylon, at [URL]http://www.sumerian.org/sumerian.pdf[/URL]. By a pleasant co-incidence, if you translate Tippy's [I]Let us therefore rejoice[/I] into Latin, you get the well-known student song [I]Gaudeamus [U]igitur[/U][/I]. Tippy was amusing himself by making a pun, even if no-one else understood it.[/SIZE] [/QUOTE]
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