Eliezer_Yudkowsky comments on Don't call yourself a rationalist. - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 15 October 2011 03:34:59AM 4 points [-]

I tend to think of y'all as the Lessiath (no relation) or LessWrongenath but it doesn't work as well in verbal conversation.

Comment author: pedanterrific 15 October 2011 05:12:55AM *  2 points [-]

Lessirim seems more euphonious, but I get why you wouldn't like the connotation.

Edit: Goodness, "Lessoth" is practically canon! And the self-deprecatory implications... my new favorite word.

Comment author: Normal_Anomaly 16 October 2011 01:53:40AM 1 point [-]

Google is not turning up much for "lessoth" or "lessiath". Can you explain?

Comment author: pedanterrific 16 October 2011 02:28:03AM *  9 points [-]

... Tolkien states that "the suffix -ath (originally a collective noun-suffix) was used as a group plural, embracing all things of the same name, or those associated in some special arrangement or organization. So elenath (as plural of êl, [irregular] pl. elin) meant 'the host of the stars' ...

Yet another ending is -hoth "folk, host, horde", ... The Silmarillion Appendix (entry hoth) states that this ending is "nearly always used in a bad sense" ... The one who first called the Snowmen of Forochel Lossoth (for *Loss-hoth, loss = "snow") evidently did not like them.

- Sindarin, the Noble Tongue

Comment author: Nisan 16 October 2011 05:16:58PM 5 points [-]

Relevant username is relevant.

Comment author: [deleted] 15 October 2011 08:02:46PM *  1 point [-]

Yay we're an Eldritch Abomination!

Comment author: pedanterrific 16 October 2011 12:05:59AM 1 point [-]

êl : star :: elenath : all the stars (in the sky)

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