Re: CHAT: feckly off-topic (was: THEORY: Storage Vs. Computation)

On Sat, 19 Jun 1999, Sally Caves wrote:

> Well, its association with creativity is indisputable... but it's such
> an
> ugly word.  Makes me think secretions. <G>  Like pulchritude, an
> amazingly
> ugly word that means "beauty."  Why are there ugly words to describe
> beautiful things, and beautiful words to describe ugly things?  Like
> _diphtheria_.  Absolutely beautiful word!  That is, if you pronounce it
> as it should be pronounced, with an /f/ instead of a /p/.  Oh well,
> it's all a matter of taste, I suppose.
>
> Sally
>
Mush! That's what my memory is turning into - I remember reading
a book, possibly a children's book, where the parents named their
daughter something like Hypochondria because they liked the sound
of it so much - maybe Diphteria is her twin sister? I can't remember
either title nor the actual name of the daughter. It wasn't Roald
Dahls Verucca.

I like pulchritude, actually, although it sounds like a skin disease.
I remember that the name Charya was derived from the Dutch 'charitatief',
'charitable', which I liked the sound of immediately when I first heard
of the word, when I was ten or thereabout.

By the way, to keep this on topic: Charya is pronounced /'xa-ri:-a:/
or /'xa-rjA./, but never /tsjE-ri-'e/.

Boudewijn Rempt  | http://www.xs4all.nl/~bsarempt