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Yesterday I went off on a tangent thinking about the 'newly' coined phrase "Cordian Druid", as a counterpart to "Discordian Druid" like the illustrious![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
chronarchy. I wanted to see if anyone actually used the word 'Cordian'. Apparently the answer is "not really", although an obscure Star Trek race shares the name with a Roman Catholic School's "ambassadors". My own LJ posts are in the first ten results, which should tell you something...
So that got me thinking about etymology. Where does the breakdown come from that we have "discord" but not "cord" (sort of like we can revitalize but never vitalize). That led me to Latin, where I found that it literally means "heart apart".
"Well that's odd," says I...and all of a sudden it occurs to me. Cardiac! Which only led me back to Indo-European root structures.
So what, exactly, does this tell us? That my problem is I have too much heart.
Duh!!!
But, you can trust me.
Yesterday I went off on a tangent thinking about the 'newly' coined phrase "Cordian Druid", as a counterpart to "Discordian Druid" like the illustrious
chronarchy. I wanted to see if anyone actually used the word 'Cordian'. Apparently the answer is "not really", although an obscure Star Trek race shares the name with a Roman Catholic School's "ambassadors". My own LJ posts are in the first ten results, which should tell you something...So that got me thinking about etymology. Where does the breakdown come from that we have "discord" but not "cord" (sort of like we can revitalize but never vitalize). That led me to Latin, where I found that it literally means "heart apart".
"Well that's odd," says I...and all of a sudden it occurs to me. Cardiac! Which only led me back to Indo-European root structures.
So what, exactly, does this tell us? That my problem is I have too much heart.
Duh!!!
But, you can trust me.
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Date: 2004-02-13 10:20 am (UTC)Anyway, I rather like the term "Cordian Druid". It's kind of pretty.
We should start opposing clubs. One for Druids with hearts, and one for Druids with black holes in place of hearts.
Then we can go to war.
I can see it all falling into place! *laughs maniacally*
Of course you know, this means war!
Date: 2004-02-13 10:40 am (UTC)I'm game to replay this scenario; I never bought it in Illuminatus! anyway. ;)
Re: Of course you know, this means war!
Date: 2004-02-13 10:44 am (UTC)Re:
Date: 2004-02-13 11:54 am (UTC)::blink:: Now I wonder whether there's an etymological connection between "heartless bastard" and "accordian player"