Geneologium? who what when why, in English please?
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The genealogical database, unlike the medical records, has not raised fundamental ethical questions of privacy and consent, despite the fact that it is expected to be (partly at least) in the public domain. However, the property issue has been contested. Recently, the private company   ___Geneologium                                            ___Islandorum has challenged deCode Genetics and Frisk Software in the courts, for using genealogical information earlier published by one of its owners and belonging to the company. The company claims that its property rights are being violated because others make profits by marketing the products of its earlier works.
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Who invented it. No one. Although it has been derived from Anglo-Saxons and the Germanic tribes English is just made up of European languages mushed up together.
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There is not such word in *modern* English.\nThere are *several* archaic words instead:
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As others have noted, the letters WERE pronounced when the spellings originated.  And had the printing press come a century later, such things might be spelled the way we now pronounce them.\n\nThere is, however, some value in all this.  It is possible to see how words are related (to see something of their history) both within English and between English and the languages it grew out of.  Thus the spelling of word may show us connections with Germanic, French and Latin words\n\nI remember that it made it a lot easier to learn German, since I could recognize some of these words as related.  (Modern German, which DOES pronounce such sounds, has "Knecht" for "knight", "Nacht" for "night", etc.) I think it also helped with things like SATs.  Similarly, when I had to pick up a reading knowledge of French, I recognized a lot of related words (though I can't pronounce French worth a lick!)  I would think this is some help to Europeans learning English as well.\n\n------------\n\nSome more thoughts on the unstated (implied?) question -- why don't we fix it?!\n\nIncidentally, one of the things that has KEPT English from thorough spelling reforms is the fact that its vocabulary has been so freely borrowed from so many sources for centuries that there would be A LOT to try change and relearn.  (German and many other European languages did see such reforms in the past couple of centuires, but they had a lot less changing to do!)   And with the wide variety of regional pronunciations among just NATIVE English speakers, which ones would be adopt for the "standard"?  And if there were multiple versions what kind of mess would that make?! (The differences that now exist between British and American spelling are quite minor, hardly a barrier to reading each others' writing.)\n \nThink too what this change would do for reading anything in slightly older English!   We wouldn't be able to read documents and letters of the last several centuries without 'translating' them!
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i guess "Englishmag"...cause it's an english magazine!!\nor even Engmag
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They are best known for collecting (or writing) the stories in the book Kinder- und Hausmärchen, which we know as Grimm's Fairy Tales.  They were also philologists (what we would call linguists today).  They worked on a dictionary and are known in linguistics for Grimm's Law, (First German Sound Shift) which gives the relationship of consonents between German, English and Latin (I am stating this roughly).  As an example, in Germanic languages (German, English, Dutch) the 'p' from non Germanic langauges (Latin, for example, 'ped' as a root for foot) became 'f' in Germanic languages (German Fuß, English foot)
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Try online Etymology Dictionary:\nwww.etymonline.com\n\nOther sites:\nen.wikipedia.org/wiki/Etymology\nwww.westegg.com/etymology  (this one has English, French and German)
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Well English...Started from Anglo-Saxon.Some words are borrowd or adopted. Some were created by accident.
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An interesting and sometimes-lovely poem. It's an acknowledgment of where and how the writer connects to his origins.\nPoetry doesn't need to make sense.  Like religion, it is often irrational.
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what are you talking about, and who taught you english?
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Well, don't know what language, but looks like it should mean "You are my only for all time."  Curious, this injection of a seemingly Latin language phrase into a Germanic language....
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Germanic, but with lots of inputs from latin, others
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What the best English translation is, I can't tell, but I can give you a link a translation online. Maybe the best translation don't exist online:\nProject Gutenberg got a translation by Swami Paramananda
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Souds right. are you Learning English? Just curious.\nif you need help Let me know
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ummm ... silly\n\nBUT, in an attempt to explain something very strange ... maybe the person reading the bible was reincarnated from that time and it brings them sorrow to read about their history
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That is something from one of those horrible online translators - someone put in English and got that garbage.  The Latin was butchered, so it is hard to say what exactly it was supposed to say, but they generally retain the original word order.  So something like "The shadow/ghost of a man is onto me".  Those online translators ought to come with a warning.  What they do to Latin is just a crime.
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oy oy oy ...\n\nAt one time we actually pronounced all of those letters..knight was k nicht..  \n\nnow, when the french attacked the Anglos in 1088 at the Battle of Hastings...French was introduced.  It was the high language for the people...yet, documents were still being written in Latin---a phonetic language.  All of this mixing and borrowing brought about such oddities...  You can consult the Oxford English Dictionary or a Book of Cognates to further explore how words evolved and changed.  Cognates basically mean cousins....such a book will show you the relationship between such words that may have the same or similar meanings.\n\nby the way, Knife was originally knive [ka nee va]...then, as language evolved, we started merging sounds...and it became [ka nif] and todays [nif].\n\nGo check out Labov.  He currently teaches at Penn.  He is the founding father of socio-linguistics.  He recently put out some of his latest research on a website that can be linked via npr.org.  It examines the Great Northern Vowel Shift and how the New England area of the US is sounding different every day.\n\nOh, and a key point to your answer is the PRINTING PRESS.  The printing press basically ended up preserving language from the mid 1500's.  So, even though we sounded differently...spelling had become regulated, grammaticians more strict, and language more preserved.  Therefore, spelling rules of the 1500's are still in place today.\n\nIf you need anything else, just let me know.  :-)