Hutaree dialect -- rooted in religion or Pokemon?

[laststeamtrain]

Hutaree dialect -- rooted in religion or Pokemon?
Doug Guthrie / The Detroit News

Debate is raging on the Internet about the origins of the name and language of a Lenawee County-based militia group charged today in federal court with planning to "levy war" against the United States.

Hutaree, pronounced Hut-a-ree, according to a Michigan Militia commander who has spoken with members of the group, is similar in spelling to Hutterite, a communal branch of Anabaptists. But they are pacifists like the Amish and Mennonites.

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Hutaree leader, David Brian Stone Sr., posting on one of his group's Internet forums under his Hutaree name, RD Merzonik, said the word "comes from our own dialect," known only to himself and perhaps four others.

Members of the organization are identified in photo albums on the Hutaree MySpace page by names like Brogzen, Shyalla, Ruetkoten, Vikuulin, Dakivik, Jersetev and Pip.

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One suggestion on the University of Pennsylvania Institute for Research in Cognitive Science Web site suggested it is nothing more than a childlike "tree house language."

"I don't see basis in biblical or military history for Radok, Boramander, Zulif, Arkon, and Lukore," University of Pennsylvania Linguistics Professor Mark Lieberman wrote on his school's Language Log. "They sound kind of like Pokémon names (e.g. Arbok, Charmander, Zubat, Rokon), but there's no precedent there, either." ... http://www.detnews.com/article/20100329/METRO/3290413/1409/metro

[Xipe Totec]

1. Shomer shabbos!! nt

[kestrel91316]

2. They are just inventing words and names. Neologisms. Sort of goes along with

the propensity for fabricating stuff out of thin air that RWers have.

[dalaigh lllama]

3. I just figured they saw "Hatari!" when they were kids

and weren't quite sure how to spell it. :shrug:

[MineralMan]

4. Additional info on the Hutaree band of morons (link)

http://www.facebook.com/pages/101st-Keyboard-Warriors/377908870888?v=wall

[LiberalEsto]

5. Horrendously Unintelligent Troglodyte Assholes

Ready to Exterminate Everyone.

[Enrique]

6. it's good that they caught the Pokemon militia

but the Power Rangers militia is still out there. :scared: