Phone Post bil-Malti

[pne]

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[angharad.livejournal.com]

Wow, I just went to play with the phone-post feature and realised that you had to pay long-distance to do that!

[pne.livejournal.com]

Depending on where you live, yes.

Though I pay 1.7 euro cents (2.6 cents Canadian) a minute for calling the US, which is not that bad; it's half the price of a daytime local call, in fact! (Though for a fair comparison, I choose a specific carrier for calls to the US but usually don't for local calls, and the ability to choose your carrier for local calls is comparatively new, anyway.)

[angharad.livejournal.com]

Heh. That's funny that a US call is cheaper than a local call.

[pne.livejournal.com]

Yup!

Not the case for international calls in general; I guess the US is that much cheaper because there's just a ton of submarine cables going that-a-way with lots of surplus bandwidth which sells more cheaply.

angħarad

[pne.livejournal.com]

Hee, I just realised your name could be Maltese: angħarad. Not sure what kind of form that would be.

Without the initial 'a', ngħarad could be a verb, though (IIId stem of base għ-r-d, 1sg imperfect: "I għarad"). And ingħarad could be a passive (VIIth stem of base għ-r-d, 3sg masc. perfect: "He was għaraded").

Re: angħarad

[angharad.livejournal.com]

But what would that mean?

(Do you know that 'angharad' is of Welsh origin?)

Re: angħarad

[pne.livejournal.com]

But what would that mean?

No idea. I don't even know whether there is a base għ-r-d in Maltese, and I don't have a dictionary here. Just saying that morphologically and phonotactically, it could be a Maltese word. (Just like 'splurgs' could be an English verb in the third person singular, present indicative, due to the phonotactics and the -s ending, even though there's no such word.)

(Do you know that 'angharad' is of Welsh origin?)

No, I didn't; what does it mean?

Re: angħarad

[angharad.livejournal.com]

Apparently it means "much loved" or "more love" or similar.
Of course, I stole it out of a fantasy novel before I ever knew it was Welsh.

Re: angħarad

[wingflutter.livejournal.com]

as far as i know, that verb doesn't exist in Maltese - unless it's an extremely old one that isn't really in use any longer.

Just saying that morphologically and phonotactically, it could be a Maltese word. - that's correct tho!