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I asked him if he knew how 2 spell onomatipoeia which means to mock or something
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Please forgive me, but my english-minor is raising its hackles... [img]smilies/smile.gif[/img]
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onomatopoeia
\On`o*mat`o*p[oe]"ia\, n. [L., fr. Gr. ?; ?, ?, a name + ? to make.] (Philol.) The formation of words in imitation of sounds; a figure of speech in which the sound of a word is imitative of the sound of the thing which the word represents; as, the buzz of bees; the hiss of a goose; the crackle of fire.
Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc.
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If it is a male horse, "formen" means north (it is the name of a tengwar letter) and "silme" means starlight.
-'Vana
[ February 17, 2003: Message edited by: DaughterofVana ]