The title may seem to lead to something about Donald Trump but this time it's more a bit of Australian bongfoolery.
The bongfoolery aspect is I have no idea of the translation for 'bombastic' in French and German.
But now I must know.
From Google Translate: Bombastic (English) / Grandiloquent (French) / Bombastisch (German).
That's somewhat interesting as there's a high level of resemblance between German and English in spelling and in meaning whereas there is no resemblance in French and the word does not mean the same thing, it's a much softer statement of the English definition.
(Ed: what's Australian about that?)
They get all drunked-up on Foster's and start mixing up words so bombastic becomes fantastic. In the case of Donald Trump, both words translate the same: dumb ass.
Where it gets highly interesting for me is in the translations.
From Google Translate: Fantastic (English) / Fantastique (French) / Fantastische (German).
In this case, English and German are in the same Germanic class of language but French is in the Romance class but all of them have almost exactly the same spelling for the word and all define the same concept.
This is the Chomsky meets Dali portion of the program as Chomsky has written extensively on the relationship between language and awareness while Dali has studied extensively on the nature of awareness. Fantastic goes beyond simply being something good and is something beyond imagination. The concept exists with little alteration in each of these languages and this implies a tremendous and long-running commonality of thinking toward the fantastic, that it's the nature of humans to do this.
Looking around a little more:
Spanish: fantástico
Italian: fantasticos
Latin: fantastic
Greek: φανταστικός (pronounced fantastikos)
Russian: фантастический (pronounced fantasticheskiy)
The exercise above continued through multiple other languages with the result being the only ones of those I reviewed which did resemble 'fantastic' were in Asian languages. There must be more but what struck me most is in how many it is the same.
The history of the word goes back to the earliest modern languages and you can see how it grew up from Greek into Russian or Greek to Latin to German to English. The word and consequently the need for it in our worldview goes back thousands of years even before the time of Christ as Greek existed long previously.
This may seem like so what, it's hippie trippie crapola but the point is humans have needed hippie trippie crapola for all of that time or the word wouldn't exist to define that which hippies and freaks constantly try to see. That's not to say we've been stoned all that time but we probably have as we're really good at finding stuff which does it. Pushing this to a rationalization for use of drugs is more than my purpose but I do see in it a deep need in all of us for the fantastic, regardless of how it is achieved.
This doesn't make me wish I had paid more attention to the Linguistics course in uni but I do see some of the fascination that drew the linguists to engage in such painstaking research.
The bongfoolery aspect is I have no idea of the translation for 'bombastic' in French and German.
But now I must know.
From Google Translate: Bombastic (English) / Grandiloquent (French) / Bombastisch (German).
That's somewhat interesting as there's a high level of resemblance between German and English in spelling and in meaning whereas there is no resemblance in French and the word does not mean the same thing, it's a much softer statement of the English definition.
(Ed: what's Australian about that?)
They get all drunked-up on Foster's and start mixing up words so bombastic becomes fantastic. In the case of Donald Trump, both words translate the same: dumb ass.
Where it gets highly interesting for me is in the translations.
From Google Translate: Fantastic (English) / Fantastique (French) / Fantastische (German).
In this case, English and German are in the same Germanic class of language but French is in the Romance class but all of them have almost exactly the same spelling for the word and all define the same concept.
This is the Chomsky meets Dali portion of the program as Chomsky has written extensively on the relationship between language and awareness while Dali has studied extensively on the nature of awareness. Fantastic goes beyond simply being something good and is something beyond imagination. The concept exists with little alteration in each of these languages and this implies a tremendous and long-running commonality of thinking toward the fantastic, that it's the nature of humans to do this.
Looking around a little more:
Spanish: fantástico
Italian: fantasticos
Latin: fantastic
Greek: φανταστικός (pronounced fantastikos)
Russian: фантастический (pronounced fantasticheskiy)
The exercise above continued through multiple other languages with the result being the only ones of those I reviewed which did resemble 'fantastic' were in Asian languages. There must be more but what struck me most is in how many it is the same.
The history of the word goes back to the earliest modern languages and you can see how it grew up from Greek into Russian or Greek to Latin to German to English. The word and consequently the need for it in our worldview goes back thousands of years even before the time of Christ as Greek existed long previously.
This may seem like so what, it's hippie trippie crapola but the point is humans have needed hippie trippie crapola for all of that time or the word wouldn't exist to define that which hippies and freaks constantly try to see. That's not to say we've been stoned all that time but we probably have as we're really good at finding stuff which does it. Pushing this to a rationalization for use of drugs is more than my purpose but I do see in it a deep need in all of us for the fantastic, regardless of how it is achieved.
This doesn't make me wish I had paid more attention to the Linguistics course in uni but I do see some of the fascination that drew the linguists to engage in such painstaking research.
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