User talk:Wrotesolid

Excalibur twaddle

You seem sadly confused as to what constitute "sourced material".
a) "Published on the internet is definitely not a standard of reliability. While I won't use that to discredit the etymological dictionary you cited, I still notice it's remarkably obscure and jumbled, and maybe not of true scholarly standard.
b) The thesis you are pushing is not directly supported by your citation, as all it does is show that one old Irish word is indeed compatible in form and meaning with your allegations. You don't give full sourcing for the whole formula, nor account for grammatical weidnesses (the adjectival -ach at the end of word 2, which would make it mean "snaky" or "serpentish" rather than "snake's"), the fact that the formula as a whole is gibberish from a Gaelic speaker's viewpoint, or the fact that, as an incantation , it sounds better as pronounced by the English language actor than it would if chanted by an actual Irish speaker. Also, if it's really meaningful or traditional, there's also a complete lack of pre 1981 sources for it, indicating that it's not Old Irish, but at best a made up formula for which the author looked up old Celtic words, but had no idea as to how they should sound, or how to write them correctly in any respect. Thanks for your warning, but if you go on pushing this OR twaddle, I'll keep doing my best to prevent that from polluting a decent article. --Svartalf (talk) 19:00, 20 February 2010 (UTC)

See my response on the article talk page [[1]] Wrotesolid (talk) 19:46, 20 February 2010 (UTC)

Apology

I do apologise for my comments on your edits of Thomas Cranmer. I realised after posting that they were a bit OTT, though I am not completely in agreement with your edits I now understand them and will leave it for others to do as they will in the future. Dabbler (talk) 13:58, 15 April 2010 (UTC)

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