Posted by Martin Read on June 08, 1999 at 01:04:17:
In Reply to: Re: Willem, and JV Web Central posted by Willem on June 07, 1999 at 09:32:43:
: : : : : : Anyone know what's happed to JackVance.com? Has it given up?
: : : : : If I remember correctly (it's hard to keep track of all of the emails sometimes), the webmaster and his wife are new parents. He's been kinda distracted for a while.
: : : : : Ggg
: : : : It seems a pity as the discussion board was developing a different, and complimentary, timbre from the one here. I was really getting into the "Spot a Vance etymology" threads!
: : : Martin, if you could explain I could do my part to get it back on track. Looks interesting what you could mean but: sorry i just don't get what you mean.
: : : Where do you want to go?
: : : I agree completely with Terry,
: : : got everything complete through help of people from the board in 2 years. Had to do a bit of my own as well ofcourse.
: : : If you read Dutch I could supply some from here
: : : ;-) the translators aren't bad at all.
: : : Willem
: : I could be getting my sites mixed up here, but I thought the Jack Vance Web Central site had a discussion board which stopped functioning some months ago. The threads there seemed to have a rather more speculative content on JV's work than is generally found here (not that the threads here are uninteresting) - it just seemed a pity that the discussion stopped.
: : Martin
: : PS. I'm afraid I don't read Dutch. The only languages other than Modern English I can make any attempt at reading are French and Anglo-Saxon. Anglo-Saxon is supposed to be related to Frisian but I don't think the closeness is such that Dutch would be intelligible to me ;-) Waes Hael!
: Martin: see your point, indeed that board got a major malfunction and the webmaster found out about sleepless nights ;-) because he got a child (he &his wife)
: Waes Hael: "be blessed" ?
: compare hail cesare, the words hail, helm , house etc all have something to do with protection
: Willem
Aha! I see - I have a small daughter and know only too well the feeling of total exhaustion. Having only 7 days paternity leave didn't help either!
You weren't far off; Waes Hael - Be Well! or Be Healthy! Waes is the ancestor of Modern English "Was" - Hael is the modern hale as in "Hale and hearty." The traditional reply was "Drinc Hael" - Drink well! A sentiment I can relate to ;-)
Martin