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* '''mishe mishe to tauftauf''': reminiscent of a walky-talky message, in which the operator identifies himself as well as the receiever so as to clarify the intention of a transmission in a crowded channel. It as though Issy and HCE are communicating with one another via the chimney flue. | * '''mishe mishe to tauftauf''': reminiscent of a walky-talky message, in which the operator identifies himself as well as the receiever so as to clarify the intention of a transmission in a crowded channel. It as though Issy and HCE are communicating with one another via the chimney flue. | ||
| − | * '''"Mirror, Mirror!"''': ''Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs''.Issy is always accompanied by her Venus mirror. | + | * '''"Mirror, Mirror!"''': ''Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs''. Issy is always accompanied by her Venus mirror. |
* ''German'' '''mischen''': to mix | * ''German'' '''mischen''': to mix | ||
Revision as of 18:42, 26 July 2006
- Italian mise: I, me (emphatic); I am.
- Exodus 3.4: Mosheh, Mosheh ("Moses, Moses!"), words spoken by Yahweh to Moses from the burning bush. Early lives of St Patrick said that he resembled Moses in four ways.
- Hebrew Mosheh: Moses → said to mean "drawn out of the waters"
- mishe mishe to tauftauf: reminiscent of a walky-talky message, in which the operator identifies himself as well as the receiever so as to clarify the intention of a transmission in a crowded channel. It as though Issy and HCE are communicating with one another via the chimney flue.
- "Mirror, Mirror!": Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. Issy is always accompanied by her Venus mirror.
- German mischen: to mix
- wisha is a colloquial Anglo-Irish exclamation indicating dismay, surprise, or emphasis
- "Wisha! wisha, says I. A pound of chops, says he, coming into the Mansion House. Wisha! says I, what kind of people is going at all now?" (from Dubliners, p. 157)
