Re: Educating Language Gifted Students Questions

Nick Wagg wrote:
> "John Briggs" <john.briggs4@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
> news:7rIgf.281$Cj5.75@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> Paul Burke wrote:
>>> izzy wrote:
>>>
>>>> Would you derive Vatican from Hebrew Va3aD = committee + KohaNim =
>>>> priests ? ... rather than from Mt. Vatican? If not, from whence Mt.
>>>> Vatican?
>>>
>>>
>>> Rather good at prediction, those old Romans, calling a hill and a
>>> swamp the Committee of Priests, knowing it would become, a thousand
>>> years later, the centre of a religion that didn't yet exist.
>>>
>>> Perhaps "Vatican" is Etruscan for "Sorry, I don't speak Hebrew".
>>
>> Perhaps we should invoke the nuclear option? And speak the name
>> "Peter T. Daniels" out loud three times?
>
> Is that a variant of Godwin's Law?

In a way - but the effect is the opposite :-)
--
John Briggs


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