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Introduction/Discussion
This section is going to deal with the Magic Power known as "Nirutti". There is not going to be any "explanation", only "presentation."
Here's what I want you to do (You need to have American Pictogram installed to view this properly):
Using American Pictogram, I want you to draw yourself (that means you draw the letter, not you type the letter using the American Pictogram font, for help drawing the characters click on the individual letters of the American Pictogram Character Set , for example, see A), the following words, in the following order, each on a separate piece of good quality paper (alternatively you can do this with cheap ball-point pens and magic markers on cheap paper, but in either case, do it over and over until you have made something you can be proud of.
pali
appamAda
satipaTThAnA
paThavi
ApO
tejo
vAyo
bhUta
devas
pajApati
brahma
Abhassara
subhakiNNa
vihapphala
abhibhu
AkAsAnaYcAyatana
viYYANaYcAyatana
AkiYcAYYAyatana
n'evasaYYAnAsaYYAyatana
dittha
suta
muta
viYYAta
ekatta
nAnata
sabbaJ
nibbAna
And then what I want you to do is to look up these words in your Pali English Dictionary (use the on-line edition if you want to start right away and do not have a copy) (check out the various translations of some of these terms in Examining the Mulapariyaya) and I want you to look up the words defining these words in English in some English dictionary of quality such as Webster's Third New International Dictionary, or The New Shorter Oxford English Dictionary, and write down on that same sheet of paper every meaning you find, every fact you learn. And while you are doing this I want you to be thinking about the following words (never mind that this is an apparent contradiction in intentions):
recognizing paThavi as earth (etc)
i know about earth.
let me not think about earth.
let me not think of earth
in whatever ways i think of earth.
let me not think in terms of “my” with regard to earth.
let me take no delight in earth.
how come?
because this way
this matter may be fully understood by me,
so they say.
Margo's Magical Letter Page
Sound Symbolism, Phonosemantics, Phonetic Symbolism, Mimologics, Iconism, Cratylus
Ideophones, Synaesthesia
The Alphabet, The Word
http://www.conknet.com/~mmagnus/LetterPage.html
I suggest you begin with:
http://www.trismegistos.com/Dissertation/
and
http://www.conknet.com/~mmagnus/Theory.html
Discussion board: http://www.trismegistos.com/soundandsense_frm.htm
A very extensive gathering of references as well as original material and a discussion board.
Individual pages and papers:
The Influence of Phonesthesia on the English Language
http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/Studios/9783/phonpap1.html
An excellent treatment of the subject although primarily directed at the study as it relates to the English language.
Sound Symbolism
http://www.percepp.demon.co.uk/soundsmb.htm
A good paper on the subject
Vowels and sound symbolism:
http://www.linguistlist.org/issues/6/6-1115.html
There's more to a name
http://www.gsb.stanford.edu/community/bmag/sbsm0395/9.htm
The study of sound symbolism in business/naming products
Hebrew Alphabet used in writing STA"M
http://www.geocities.com/Athens/9587/alephbet.html
The Jargon Dictionary
http://info.astrian.net/jargon/
A comprehensive compendium of hacker slang illuminating many aspects of hackish tradition, folklore, and humor. As well as searching, check out the link above for an interesting resource on Jargon.
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