Monday, May 08, 2023
Phony Anaphony?
Joshua T. Katz, "Saussure's anaphonie: sounds asunder," in Shane Butler and Alex Purves, edd., Synaesthesia and the Ancient Senses (London: Routledge, 2014), pp. 167-184 (at 181, footnote omitted, citations in brackets added):
I adapted the title of this blog post from Katz, p. 178.
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[W]hen one thinks, reads and listens upside-down and backwards, around and about, as Saussure seems to have done, then multiplying examples does not really help: if you accept that the name SCIPIO lurks in Taurasia Cisauna Samnio cepit [Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum I2 7.5] and that Homer is encoding Ἀγάμεμνον in ἀργαλέων ἀνέμων ἀμέγαρτον ἀϋτμήν [Odyssey 11.400], then more cases will make you happy; but if you do not immediately accept one or both of these — and I expect that more of my readers are skeptical than not — then being bombarded with further instances of such strangeness is likely just to be annoying.Katz, fig. 12.1 on p. 176:
