medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
Marjorie Greene <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>Though hardly a scholarly source
no.
> one might consult the following:
> http://www.tripadvisor.com/Discount_Hotels-g187090-Auvergne.html
this site removes the the from *all* regions/places, even when the The is part
of the name :
Bahamas discount hotels
Barbados discount hotels
British Virgin Islands discount hotels
Caribbean discount hotels
Dominican Republic discount hotels
U.S. Virgin Islands discount hotels
> This might be a tad more serious:
> http://www.nationmaster.com/encyclopedia/Auvergne
"tad" is the operative word there.
> Then there's the good ole' Yahoo Encyclopedia:
> http://dir.yahoo.com/regional/countries/france/regions/auvergne/
yes, when used as an adjective "auvergne" doesn't take a "the".
a tad more serious might be
http://www.shef.ac.uk/uni/academic/A-C/ap/research/auvuk.html
if we're going to take frequency of use on the web as a criteria for deciding
Correct Usage (and i'd rather not), i suggest we give sites written by
educated folk more weight than humdrum mass-market commercial ones.
>The French don't put an "l," in front of the name except when it's the
subject of a sentence or a title or a heading:
> http://www.cr-auvergne.fr/fr/index.asp
what do the natives know about how to correctly refer to their own region?
> Here's the English version of same:
> http://www.cr-auvergne.fr/uk/index.asp
much less in a foreign language?
c
"George W. Bush's unplugged performance with Tim Russert on Sunday offered
hope for even the dumbest of men: You too can become president of the United
States.
"Yet Bush's apparent inanity conceals his immense talent as a political
speaker. If one applies the principles of duckspeak to Bush's performance, he
is a doubleplusgood doublethinker....
"Orwell wrote:
"Newspeak vocabulary was tiny, and new ways of reducing it were constantly
being devised. Newspeak, indeed, differed from most all other languages in
that its vocabulary grew smaller instead of larger every year. Each reduction
was a gain, since the smaller the area of choice, the smaller the temptation
to take thought. Ultimately it was hoped to make articulate speech issue from
the larynx without involving the higher brain centres at all. This aim was
frankly admitted in the Newspeak word duckspeak, meaning 'to quack like a
duck'."
http://www.salon.com/opinion/feature/2004/02/10/duckspeak/index.html
http://www.adbusters.org/magazine/48/img/articles/early_signs_of_fascism.jpg
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