Neologisms....

[Fredrik]

My neologisms that you havent commented I guess you find quite 
awright...is that really so??????????
> 
> 
> It's a slippery slope though.  To me the social meanings 
> of 'persecution' and 'oppression' don't seem to be necessarily all 
> that clearly distinct from each other.  Both could include physical 
> violence.  Or either could refer to a combination of more subtle 
> niggling abuses.  Both could be inflicted on a group of people, but 
> it would be more usual to talk about persecuting (hounding, 
> harrassing) an individual.  'repression' to me suggests something 
> more active than 'oppression', but that might just be me.  You can 
> REPRESS a movement or a meeting or a rebellion or the opposition, 
> but you wouldn't normally OPPRESS a single specific event.  But a 
> people generally could be 'repressed' or 'oppressed' and that might 
> amount to the same thing.  They're all negative words in the sense 
> that governments wouldn't admit to such actions, even when 
inflicted 
> on their stated enemies, but instead talk of, for 
> instance, "controlling" or "clamping down on illegal immigration" 
> (instead of actually oppressing/persecuting, assaulting, 
imprisoning 
> and indeed massacring the migrants themselves).  I'm afraid I can't 
> be so precise about the various Gothic words...
> 

I'm not that good at english so I my definitions aint that good 
either I guess...I think I'll go with your suggestions after all


 
> If you look at the examples, 'finþan' seems to be more restricted 
> than English "find".  'finþan' has the sense of discovering 
> information, coming to know, or learning (finding out) a 
> fact.  'fanþ' and 'ufkunnaida' both translate Greek 'egnw' "came to 
> know, learnt, discovered (information)".  The more general sense 
> of "find" (e.g. find an object or encounter a person, also discover 
> someone to be something) is covered by 'bi-gitan'.

In the texte the sentence was to discover America...is it ok with 
finthan there?
 
> 
> 
> > I guess that it doesn't takes a
> genius to understand what I'm tryin to do...at least Llama Nom have
> figured it out :)
> 
> 
> Yes, even me!
> 
I hope you didnt missunderstood me!

/Fredrik





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