[Fictionary] YAMEN results

[lindafowens at netzero.net]

Sorry, but the joke's on me-- I did not know that yurt was an in-joke amongst our group.  Or that the word had been used previously.  Did I miss something?  Perhaps it's only my bad memory?  Or was it used prior to my joining in late '00?  As a non-linguist, I really did think that a yamen would go well against a yurt, or ger, or araba, or tipi.  Linda
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From: Josh Smift <irilyth at infersys.com>
To: fictionary at swarpa.net
Subject: Re: [Fictionary] YAMEN results
Date: Fri, 18 Oct 2013 21:14:19 -0400

PA> Those words look Swedish or something close, and I know cognates of
PA> the first two if they are. Are they?

The pages that each word links to, certainly think so.

Card suggests that only war against varelse is justified, because
communication is impossible. It's been a while since I read it, but one of
CJ Cherryh's Chanur books, as I recall, argued that varelse are the only
people against whom war is *not* justified, because if you can't
communicate, then if you start fighting them, you don't have any way to
make *peace*. "You don't pick a fight with someone you can't *talk* to!"
thinks the Internet. An interesting contrast.

(The correct conclusion is clearly either (a) therefore you should never
war against anyone; or (b) therefore you are clearly doomed to war against
*everyone*. :^)

                                     -Josh (irilyth at infersys.com)
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