[Ezekiel]

Re English -- so much just flies right under the radar.

melliloquent

From Latin mel, mellis (“honey”) + loquens (“speaking”), present participle of loqui (“to speak”).

(archaic) Speaking sweetly or harmoniously.

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Reminds me of that 'Scrabble' scene in Sneakers. Too many secrets, yet any fool could do it:

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How is this possible?

Cryptography systems are based on mathematical problems... so complex they cannot be solved without a key.

Janek figured out a way to solve those problems without the key, and he hard-wired it into that chip.

Turn it off.

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So it's a code-breaker.

No, it's *the* code-breaker. No more secrets.

Honey, you and Melissa get your things.

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word: מילה milah

bee: דבורה dvorah

speech: דבורה dibur

things, objects; words: דברים dvarim

stuff (n.): דברים dvarim...

...which appears upside-down at the beginning of the 'Scrabble' scene clip here.

I originally wanted to use that link, but can you believe it, it cuts off right before

"Honey, you and Melissa get your things."

Crazy, misses all of the connections! 🙂

[Verginius Rufus]

Latin mel comes from Greek meli for "honey" (melissa means "bee"), but the Greeks got the words from the pre-Greek inhabitants of Greece (along with words like glossa and thalassa). Any Greek name with a double S is probably pre-Greek (like Parnassos or Knossos).

John Adams told his son John Quincy Adams that Greek was the most perfect of all human languages, but he was probably thinking of its intellectual qualities rather than how beautiful it sounded.

[Jamestown1630]

“Honey, you and Melissa get your things.”

LOL