英语词汇logomachy的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

logomachy; flyting. Logomachy, from a Greek word mean- ing “word contest,” is “fighting about words,” often about verbal subtleties. However, it can be loosely used to mean fighting with words, actual “combats of curses,” the most colorful exam- ple of these being the poets who led pre-Islamic Arabs into combat, hurling curses at the enemy (warfare and the arts were specialized even then). But a better word for word fighting is flyting. Flytings (from the Old English flyte, “to contend or jeer”) were contests held principally by 16th-century Scottish poets in which two persons “assailed each other alternately with tirades of abusive verse.” Following is one of 32 stanzas di- rected at Scotland’s James V by his former tutor, Sir David Lindsay. Bear in mind that this vitriolic diatribe lost the flyting.

词汇	logomachy
词源	logomachy; flyting. Logomachy, from a Greek word mean- ing “word contest,” is “fighting about words,” often about verbal subtleties. However, it can be loosely used to mean fighting with words, actual “combats of curses,” the most colorful exam- ple of these being the poets who led pre-Islamic Arabs into combat, hurling curses at the enemy (warfare and the arts were specialized even then). But a better word for word fighting is flyting. Flytings (from the Old English flyte, “to contend or jeer”) were contests held principally by 16th-century Scottish poets in which two persons “assailed each other alternately with tirades of abusive verse.” Following is one of 32 stanzas di- rected at Scotland’s James V by his former tutor, Sir David Lindsay. Bear in mind that this vitriolic diatribe lost the flyting. Purse-peeler, hen-stealer, cat-killer, no I qyell thee; Rubiator, fornicator by nature, foul befal thee. Tyke-sticker, poisoner Vicar, Pot-licker, I mon paz thee. Jock blunt, dead Runt, I shall punt when I slay thee. See the dozens.
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