tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5326953960516021123.post7172576246118661202..comments2024-03-14T02:52:33.834-07:00Comments on The People of The Rock: Did "gibberish" originally describe the speech in Gibraltar (Yanito)?Garretthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02038164372507641630noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5326953960516021123.post-17894099452797230612021-08-14T11:38:08.324-07:002021-08-14T11:38:08.324-07:00I arrived at this website because I felt that the ...I arrived at this website because I felt that the accepted etymology of 'gibberish' is wrong. Intuitively I saw a connection between Gibraltar and 'gibberish', because Gibraltar has been a crossroad of cultures through the ages. As I lack a scientific background I can only indicate a possible line of research. <br />The Romans referred to the rock as 'Mons Calpe', which I guess is Latin for 'bald mountain'. Before the Roman era, the rocks on either side of the strait were referred to as the 'Pillars of Hercules'. These pillars play a major part in the ancient mystery schools and the peculiar vocabulary of their ceremonial rites could have contributed to the sense that the language of Gibraltar is a linguistic mystery.<br />However, I wonder if the name Gibraltar could be related to that of the Archangel Gabriel, as in 'Gabriel Altar', because Gabriel is considered to be God's messenger. On both sides of the strait there are (or have been) sanctuaries of St. Mary, to whom Gabriel appeared for the annunciation of the birth of Jesus. Apart from the lily, the scroll and the ink horn, among the attributes of Gabriel is the Jacob's Staff, an instrument for navigation (see his statue on a pillar in Heroes'Square in Budapest. Some research into the variations on the name Gabriel could show a relation between Gabriel and Algebra. Although algebra is said to come from the Arabic al-jabr ‘the reunion of broken parts’, ‘bone-setting’, from jabara ‘reunite, restore’, that word could be related to the art of Gabriel, who stands, among other things for 'proper measurement'. Hence he is also depicted with a measuring rod. It is said that the original sense, ‘the surgical treatment of fractures’, probably came via Spanish, in which it survives; the mathematical sense comes from the title of a book, ‘ilm al-jabr wa'l-muqābala ‘the science of restoring what is missing and equating like with like’, by the mathematician al-Ḵwārizmī. But where did the word 'al jabr' come from? It could be related to Gabriel. There is a mosque in Tehran dedicated to Jebreil, which I suppose is another way of spelling for Gabriel.BellatrixJansenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05640089211874672503noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5326953960516021123.post-48253434839126518612016-03-13T22:55:11.609-07:002016-03-13T22:55:11.609-07:00I am mindful that debilitating and grinding povert...I am mindful that debilitating and grinding poverty afflicts my people and chains them to the lowest rung of the economic ladder.<a href="https://wadeprogram.com/" rel="nofollow">best virtual assistant program</a>Anna Schaferhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09633259957714692411noreply@blogger.com