Etymology is a rabbit hole, especially when one thinks about how words relate to each other in different languages as well.

One example I'll never forget is the German word "greifen", which means to catch or hold onto something with your hands.

This is related to "begreifen" which means to understand, and it's fascinating to me since this brings us back to our origins as monkeys hopping between branches. Which is why in English we say we grasp a concept or an idea.

This goes so deep that in Italian there's the same relationship as in German: "prendere" means to take or to catch, "comprendere" means to understand.

Beautiful stuff if you ask me

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Beautiful stuff indeed

So cool

Stay tuned, ser. I'm at 140+ pages and counting of written content and a LOT of it is "heretical" etymology. As such, the working title of the book, "What's in a Name?", is not only a reference to the catalyst for this ongoing research bender, i.e. when Medicine Man gave me my name.

I look forward to reading it

Just wait until you study occult "green language."

This is the first time this term has been put onto my radar.

I looked it up and it resonates heavily with my research.

At the risk of incorrectly deploying a brand new term, it seems rather safe to say that my research is heavily consistent of autodidactic translation of occult green language.

You just led me to the subtitle of my book I'm writing.

Occult green language is alternatively known as "The Language of the Birds".

As of right now, I cannot imagine a better name for this book:

"What's in a Name?: The Language of the Birds" by Red Tail Hawk.

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So, the other day, nostr:npub14d7ezuzsy55f6c2f4k02r27yeexyj42a7uvsfu53xmpzx7z75mmsnw0xv0 asked nostr for movie recs.

Thinking about the intersection of her known interests and movies that might've slipped past unnoticed when released, I suggested The Librarian and the Quest for the Spear.

I remembered enjoying it the first time I watched it, which was at some point within the last 3 years so I threw it on again. I had totally forgotten that "the language of the birds" was featured in that movie. The Librarian character decodes the language of the birds in about 7 hours. Hat's off to him. I'm on month 34 lol. Perhaps I thought initially that the language of the birds was just some fabricated plot point, but now I know better. It was a Hollywood distortion of something very real.

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Philologists hate me.

I see connections where they do not because they never looked anywhere but their textbooks and lecture hall chalk boards.

So much of my research is word analysis though and I'm a fucking mathematician, not a linguist (although technically math IS a language and an art form).

It's the perfect book title, except for one thing.

Ornithologists are going to join the philologists in hating me when they buy my book thinking its a book for bird word nerds or some weird niche like that.

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Best resource to do that? Can you summarise pls?

Indeed there is

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