Fallacious

From: Greg Stafford <Greg_at_...>
Date: Sun, 25 Jun 2006 16:09:36 -0700


YGWV
>> > (The word "anile"
>> > on which the name Annilla seems to be based refers to
>> > "old women" often in a demented sense).

>> Whereas YGWV is always true, the supposed origins of this word
>> are fallacious.
>
> Given that other gods names have origins that belie their supposed
> function (Vivamort,

Hey, don't forget Styx too.

> (em)Issaries etc) and that the earliest description
> of Annilla has the Lunars depicting her as "an elderly blind woman
> in blue" (prosopaedia), "fallacious" is the wrong word to use.

OK, let's use wrong, erroneous, or false instead then. Your projection into the origins of these words is very creative, and I commend you on your imagination, but in fact, I generally remember the origins of the words that I made up, and I will assure you that before your email, I'd never once heard or read "anile." And whereas extracting Issaries from Emissaries is wonderfully clever, and I'd love to be able to claim such for myself, such origin did not originate from my conscious mind.
And for the record, the author of the Cult of Vivamort made up that word, and I was happy to let it remain in the canon despite its obvious Latinate origins.

But very clever, Peter!



Sincerely,
Greg Stafford

Issaries, Inc.
c/o Greg Stafford
1942 Shattuck AVe, #204
Berkeley, CA 94704 USA

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