Hi, here are some clarifications of my points for you... > if the form of conor which we have does come from an > anglicization (nor is > this theory certain),
hmmm, I am just taking what Dr. MacKillop has not theorized on, but stated...( he being a former professor of English at Syracuse U., aforementioned pres. of the American Conference for Irish Studies, and not to mention the Visiting Fellow in Celtic Languages at Harvard and a 3 time published author for Oxford Press) I figured that he probably knows. > so anglicization is irrelevant to my previous > presentation- but the point that MacKillop illustrates concerning the variance of pronounciation is very relevent, which was the main idea behind the quotation > every county of ireland has it's own dialect, BUT we > cannot pretend... ... exactly, this is why I included the quotation from Dr. MacKillop! I will re-quote: " ...Irish pronounciation in particular is not standardized." pretty final I would say. (who wrote a textbook on old irish) for conchobor was > CON- co- bwer. and your > britannic cynnan would be pronounced more closer to > CUHN-an Take this up with Dr. MacKillop, he seems to disagree, and since I am neither a Gaelic scholar, nor him, I can't dispute your point, though it doesn't discount that CON-co-bwer was not one of the versions he presented in the book that I have on my lap. (But it could be true, since pronounciation is not standardized!) > as to your government translations- well and good, > but completely and > totally irrelevant unless your specialty is old > irish, and something tells > me it's not. Irrelevant to old Irish, but not irrelevant to know that it is unwise to make claims about a non-native language, even if you are completely fluent in it. That is what being a translator has taught me, just when you think you know a language....! Anyway, I am not really concerned with the subtleties of Old Irish; I know only a little of the language's properties, and have this single book as my information source. Instead, I feel that since many people indicated that Howard believed his Conan was pronounced KO-n'n, this is the final word, and the confirmation to my initial query. Jesse ______________________________________________________________________ Post your free ad now! http://personals.yahoo.ca
