Attila's speech

[ualarauans]

--- In gothic-l at yahoogroups.com, OSCAR HERRERA <duke.co at ...> wrote:
>
> getica looks pretty much like gothic to me.......whats up with 
fredric?

Oscar, I must say that your way to express yourself is rather 
mysterious at times. Not long ago you told us that "assimilation and 
extermination are foolhardy words" reacting on my post where I spoke 
of the final fates of the Visigoths and the Ostrogoths in Spain and 
Italy respectively. I asked you then to explain why you think so, 
but you didn't. OK, let it be. Now you're telling that "getica looks 
pretty much like gothic to me". Should it be understood so that you 
find Latin of Getica as incomprehensible as Gothic, or that you 
think it is a genuine source for the Gothic history, or that in your 
opinion it was originally written in Gothic or by Goths, or what 
else? Secondly, whom do you referring to as Fredric (I suggest you 
capitalize the initial letters of the listmemvers' personal names, 
at the very least)? I may try to guess and think of either Fredrik 
(gadrauhts) or Frederick L. Scoggins. In both cases I don't 
know "what's up" with them. What do you mean, actually?

Ualarauans

> ualarauans <ualarauans at ...> wrote:          --- In
> gothic-l at yahoogroups.com, Michael Erwin <merwin at ...> wrote:
> >
> > I would mention faura *andaruna or faura *andruna, thinking of
> > andastaþjis and andstandjan, but I'm not sure whether the latter
> two
> > words are semantically related or just look that way.
> 
> Andastaþjis "opponent", "enemy" and andstandan "to oppose", "to
> stand against" are certainly related, both etymologically and
> semantically. Look at p.t. stoþ "[I, he, she, it] stood" dropping
> the nasal too.
> 
> > Of course it's traditional to practice Gothic by translating the
> > bible, but it's not that uncommon to try other sources. I've 
tried
> > translating labor songs, and I'm wondering what sort of pseudo-
> > historical theory could be read into that...
> 
> I suggest you just have to try and see what you'll get in 
comments ;-
> ). Seriously speaking, it would be great if people were more eager
> to share their Gothic compositions with the group. I'm sure many of
> us have some.
> 
> Ualarauans

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