Grand Unified Theory

David Stockhoff · 25 Aug 2010, 17:34 · from 2010-August.txt.gz

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From: dstockhoff at verizon.net (David Stockhoff)
Date: Wed, 25 Aug 2010 13:34:14 -0400
Subject: (urth) Grand Unified Theory
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As a regular watcher of True Blood, I find that last a tantalizing 
suggestion.

Psyche was a mortal, not a fairy or a half-fairy, but:

In Greek mythology <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greek_mythology>, 
Psyche was the deification of the human soul 
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soul>. She was portrayed in ancient 
mosaics as a goddess with butterfly 
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Butterfly> wings. The Greek word psyche 
literally means "spirit, breath, life or animating force". [wiki]

But I digress.

Dan'l Danehy-Oakes wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 25, 2010 at 9:16 AM, Ryan Dunn <ryan at liftingfaces.com> wrote:
>
>   
> I deeply mistrust anyone who claims to know how the ancients -- ANY
> ancients -- pronounced things. Unless the Greeks left a text
> (something like the opening movement of de Saussure's _Cours de
> Linguistique Generale_) that actually describes the mouth and throat
> movements involved in each letter, the most we have is a high
> probability that, say, the kappa was pronounced like the modern
> English kay. Was psyche pronounced SOO-kie? I don't know.
>
>

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