Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/2007 April 22

= April 22 =

Nazoraios
In Wikipedia the name Nazarene has several meanings. It says: the BAGD Lexicon suggests that Nazarene (if translated thus from "Nazoraios") meant something else before it was connected with Nazareth (an ancient town in Israel). Is there any history on the word "Nazoraios" and it meaning? Looking under Biblical names its meaning here is: Thanks, --Doug talk 13:17, 22 April 2007 (UTC)
 * Nazareth, separated; crowned; sanctified (isn't this similar to meanig of "Christ"?)
 * Nazarite, one chosen or set apart (isn't this the same meaning for the word "holy"?)
 * For "nazarite," see nazirite. Wareh 18:29, 23 April 2007 (UTC)

Singaporean English
I am trying to analyse a weblog text written by a Singaporean teenager. He uses a lot of Singlish words, and I can't make out if they are variants of the typically Singlish discourse particles or if any of them might be some kind of tag questions, interjections or even address terms. (I'm provisionally assuming that they are discourse particles spelt with a z at the end, but I need to be certain!)

The words I'm having problems with are lahz, lorz, haiyz and lehz. Googling haiyz, for instance, results in a lot of hits for Sing blogs.

Thanks, --Bonadea 14:47, 22 April 2007 (UTC)
 * Words ending in z rather than s are common in leet. I think we'd have to see an example of the text to identify them. Do they only occur in sentence final positions? Secretlondon 06:43, 26 April 2007 (UTC)
 * Good point about the s -> z -- the thing is that the Singlish discourse particles I suspect don't end with an s. Of course l33t sometimes adds a z to words, and that's probably what is going on here. Example sentences: "yest didnt manage to finish my hw so later gtta do lorz.. haiyz so sad" "well, it's a nice book lahz, make ya reflect upon many stuff.." and "but i think tt if i realli gt that for my o's i will die lehz.." Most of them are in clause (if not sentence) final positions, except for haiyz which can occur on its own or initially. --Bonadea 14:12, 26 April 2007 (UTC)