Re: Life Love and the Universe in drwho on usenet


"Michael Urban" <urban@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:g9v052$i1d$1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
In article <SbidnZKIUt9Of1zVnZ2dnUVZ8rGdnZ2d@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
Agamemnon <agamemnon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:


He NEVER made any predictions. Can you read French?

<<<No.>>>

Thought so.


> time trying to find the tiniest possibility that some of his
> prophecies might be true.

Clearly you can't read French.


<<<That's right.>>>

Then it is obvious that you won't have a clue about what Nostradamus
actually wrote.

<<<"Michel de Nostredame (14 December 1503 or 21 December 1503 - 2 July
1566), usually Latinized to Nostradamus, was a French apothecary and
reputed seer who published collections of prophecies that have since
become famous world-wide. He is best known for his book Les Propheties
(The Prophecies), the first edition of which appeared in 1555."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nostradamus>>>

Les Propheties = The Publications. From the Latin Profero, to bring forward.

Not according to the OED (the 'ph' in the spelling should suggest
a Greek origin for this word even without looking it up, but we'll
let the OED do the work):

As usual YOU DON'T HAVE THE SLIGHTEST CLUE of what you are talking about.

What does the OED have to do with Medieval French? BUGGER ALL!


Prophecy, late L. prophetia, prophecia adopted from Gk propheteia
< prophetes, 'prophet'. ... "The Greek prophetes was originally
the spokesman or interpreter of a divinity, e.g., of Zeus, Dionysius
or Apollo, or the deliverer or interpreter of an oracle..."

More evidence that YOU DON'T HAVE THE SLIGHTEST CLUE.


The word 'prophet' (and thence 'prophecy') is a compound of 'pro'
and 'phetes' (speaker) and is quite fairly translated as 'foreteller'.

NO YOU IDIOT!

Pro comes from pros and means forward, fhtia comes from fhmi, to make known, therefore O Profitis means, the one who comes forward to make known. NOTHING WHATSOEVER to do with foretelling the future.

Les Propheties were Nostradamus medical accounts which he brought forward and thus made known.


There is nothing in the six definitions given in the OED for

YOU DON'T HAVE THE REMOTEST CLUE!

'Prophecy' - which in English is directly derived through French -
that suggests that it was ever used to mean 'publications' in the
last 700 years, i.e., since well before the time of Nostradamus.
If you can cite a historical French dictionary that says that in
the 16th century, it was used to mean 'publication', please do so.

Also from Wikipedia's article about Nostradamus:

Wikipedia isn't worth the paper it's written on. Oh, it's not written on paper. So its worth *** all.... like I said.


Works: ... The Almanacs. By far the most popular of his works,
these were published annually from 1550 until his death. He often
published two or three in a year, entitled either Almanachs
(detailed predictions), (more
generalized predictions).

BOLLOCKS!

Almanachs is ARABIC for THE DIARIES from al, the, and manah, to reckon. These were DIARIES of Nostradamus case histories, and the appointments he kept with his patients organised in chronological lists which gave information about his diagnoses and the condition the patient was suffering from.

DERANGED LUNATIC!

Prognostications or Presages = Medical Diagnoses


Dude, the guy made his _living_ at divination in one form or another.

BOLLOCKS! He made his living for PSYCHIATRY!

Do you just make this stuff up as you go along? Or do you have a
huge manuscript in the works, "Agamemnon's World: A Compendium of
Misinformation"? I look forward to its publication.

IGNORANT DERANGED IMBECILE! Read Nostradamus in the original FRENCH you twat!

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