[Dragaera] Another (minor) Jhegaala thought

[Jon Lincicum]

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From: Philip Hart <philiph at slac.stanford.edu>
> 
> 
> On Fri, 15 Aug 2008, Peter Granzeau wrote:
> 
> > At 06:57 PM 8/14/2008, Philip Hart wrote:
> >> Maybe there's something tricky going on along the lines of your hermeneutics, 
> but
> >> I'm stuck on just the exegesis here.
> >
> > Huh?  WTH do those two ten dollar words mean, anyway?
> 
> They mean I beat the hell out of my dictionary.
> 
> For the record "hermeneutics" and "exegesis" are words for explanations
> of texts, and have a religious overtone, which is appropriate when 
> discussing the Texts (this little running joke of mine is the esoteric
> reason for using the words).  The former has (unless I'm confused) an 
> implication of secret meanings while the latter implies an obvious
> reading.  Paarfi-is-Sethra is a hermeneutical reading, while "how
> many weeks are there between _Phoenix_ and _Jhegaala_ based on
> Vlad's statements here and here" is exegesis.  What's funny (well,
> what I found funny) was that Alexx and I more often follow the
> opposite approaches.


Hmmm... Those wiktionary definitions do not seem to capture the subtlety of this distinction. (Which I suppose is more an indictment of Wiktionary than anything else. Oh well.)

Majikjon