My Dear Melinaki,
Although my name is Les, I am sorry to be Frank, but your choice for the Competition is --- how can I put it kindly? --- utterly Useless!
In a word: it is Rubbish, Trash, Drivel, Balderdash, Gibberish, and even borders on Gobbledygook. (Gobbledygook is quite close to Aix-la-Chappelle, near Mount Fujiyama).
The meaning is Meaningless!
The word is Fatuous! (Indeed, if it was any Fatter it would distort the Forum.)
The choice is Incomprehensible, Intocomprehensible, and Insidecomprehensible --- and you can �t get much more InComprehensible than THAT.
Melinaki, for centuries I have admired you from afar, (because England is a long way from Greece, even with a telescope).
However, this contribution of yours, astonishly clever though it is, is probably the stupidest, if not the most idioticist, suggestion that I have ever seen in my entire life of 129 years, (and I say that with the greatest of respect for your enormous academic ability).
As you and I both know, the word "ENTELECHY" was coin-ed, (or Drachma-ed), by Socrates.
�ENT� = �Ear, Nose & Throat� (English); �EL� = �the� (Spanish); �EC� = �Emergency Contraception� (Country unspecified); �HY� = �Hi� (Russian).
You will realise that, for various cultural reasons, I do not wish to analyse this invented word, because I don�t like talking about THAT sort of thing in mixed company!
Nevertheless, I will shatter the misconception that Aristotle is better known for his magnificent mind, than for his beautiful body!
Much is made of his intellectual ability, his speeches, his enormous memory. But his physical prowess was considerably more astounding. Why?
Because he could WALK, many, many many years before he could use his brain and TALK. In other words, he could Toddle before he could use his Noddle.
Although now, everyone refers to him as "Aristotle", in reality, he was originally named "Harold" ("Harry").
Consequently, when he was aged 3 weeks, his Cockney Nurse, (who never pronounced �H�), wanted everyone to see his first, few, faltering steps. She wept, in absolute amazement.
In a loud voice she proudly declared:
"Arry �s Toddle!"
THAT is a TRUE record of how the great philosopher, Aristotle, was given the name by which History now knows him!
All the VERY BEST, Melinaki, to YOU, and to the Greek people.
(The next time you see me in Greece, in a Taxi, please, shout: "Endaksi?")
Thank you for joining in the "Word of the Day" fun!
Les Douglas
