Comments on: Who’s Frank? http://www.matjjin-nehen.com/2007/05/02/whos-frank/ a linguist without a language Mon, 28 Nov 2011 10:47:10 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Jangari http://www.matjjin-nehen.com/2007/05/02/whos-frank/comment-page-1/#comment-213 Jangari Fri, 04 May 2007 09:40:21 +0000 http://www.matjjin-nehen.com/2007/05/02/whos-frank/#comment-213 ! That <i>is</i> it. I had some idea that Anne might have had something to do with it, but I couldn't see where it fit in. That works well. Thanks Nicholas, I can sleep now. !
That is it.
I had some idea that Anne might have had something to do with it, but I couldn’t see where it fit in. That works well. Thanks Nicholas, I can sleep now.

]]> By: Nicholas Ostler http://www.matjjin-nehen.com/2007/05/02/whos-frank/comment-page-1/#comment-212 Nicholas Ostler Fri, 04 May 2007 09:20:37 +0000 http://www.matjjin-nehen.com/2007/05/02/whos-frank/#comment-212 Or better still - and more respectfully to the setter, combine David's insight with mine: em + O (nothing) in An-ne's. That must be it. Or better still – and more respectfully to the setter, combine David’s insight with mine: em + O (nothing) in An-ne’s. That must be it.

]]> By: Nicholas Ostler http://www.matjjin-nehen.com/2007/05/02/whos-frank/comment-page-1/#comment-211 Nicholas Ostler Fri, 04 May 2007 09:17:01 +0000 http://www.matjjin-nehen.com/2007/05/02/whos-frank/#comment-211 I think the problem is that the answer is based on a mistake. The Frank in question may be Anne of that ilk. Then nemo is supposed to mean nothing, but it actually means nobody. Mit der Dummheit kaempfen Goetter selbst vergebens. It requires sufficent stupidity to fight it. I think the problem is that the answer is based on a mistake. The Frank in question may be Anne of that ilk. Then nemo is supposed to mean nothing, but it actually means nobody. Mit der Dummheit kaempfen Goetter selbst vergebens. It requires sufficent stupidity to fight it.

]]> By: Jangari http://www.matjjin-nehen.com/2007/05/02/whos-frank/comment-page-1/#comment-210 Jangari Thu, 03 May 2007 09:16:53 +0000 http://www.matjjin-nehen.com/2007/05/02/whos-frank/#comment-210 Aha, David, another clue! Okay, so <i>measure nothing</i> becomes <i>anemo</i>, but then where does the <i>nes</i> come from?! Aha, David, another clue!
Okay, so measure nothing becomes anemo, but then where does the nes come from?!

]]> By: David Nash http://www.matjjin-nehen.com/2007/05/02/whos-frank/comment-page-1/#comment-209 David Nash Thu, 03 May 2007 09:09:25 +0000 http://www.matjjin-nehen.com/2007/05/02/whos-frank/#comment-209 Well, <i>an em</i> is a <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Em_%28typography%29" rel="nofollow">typographical unit</a>... Well, an em is a typographical unit…

]]> By: Jangari http://www.matjjin-nehen.com/2007/05/02/whos-frank/comment-page-1/#comment-208 Jangari Thu, 03 May 2007 07:51:11 +0000 http://www.matjjin-nehen.com/2007/05/02/whos-frank/#comment-208 Ah, that's helps greatly: I thought the 'clue', the synonym, was 'woodland plants', but evidently it is 'Frank's woodland plants', perhaps Frank Waley discovered them or something. The construction then, is 'measure nothing in', the 'in' can be disregarded - extrametricated, in phonological terminology - leaving 'measure nothing'. If 'nothing' is 'none', then all that remains is the a_em___s, which are the first four letters of 'measure'. It's a stretch, perhaps even too much of a stretch for anyone else, but not for this compiler. The same crossword also had <i>work fin out in metallic sheet</i> to give <i>tinfoil</i>. Easy you say? But how?! Anyway, that may have been it, Cooper. Cheers. Ah, that’s helps greatly:
I thought the ‘clue’, the synonym, was ‘woodland plants’, but evidently it is ‘Frank’s woodland plants’, perhaps Frank Waley discovered them or something.
The construction then, is ‘measure nothing in’, the ‘in’ can be disregarded – extrametricated, in phonological terminology – leaving ‘measure nothing’. If ‘nothing’ is ‘none’, then all that remains is the a_em___s, which are the first four letters of ‘measure’.

It’s a stretch, perhaps even too much of a stretch for anyone else, but not for this compiler. The same crossword also had work fin out in metallic sheet to give tinfoil. Easy you say? But how?!

Anyway, that may have been it, Cooper.
Cheers.

]]> By: Cooper http://www.matjjin-nehen.com/2007/05/02/whos-frank/comment-page-1/#comment-207 Cooper Thu, 03 May 2007 07:14:08 +0000 http://www.matjjin-nehen.com/2007/05/02/whos-frank/#comment-207 That's bloody tough, but then again I am crap at all crosswords, especially cryptic ones. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anemone_ranunculoides Mentions a 'Frank Waley', but I've no idea really That’s bloody tough, but then again I am crap at all crosswords, especially cryptic ones.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anemone_ranunculoides

Mentions a ‘Frank Waley’, but I’ve no idea really

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