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# Number 8

🏷 Latin hoax marker numerology pun · symbol — by Gerry · May 2019 · 364 words

The number 8 is octo in Latin, which puns with acto / acta for “acted”. Enacting hoaxes is what the spooks do all the time, so this is a hoax marker. Because octo & act are often-used Latin loanwords, it even works in modern English.

## Latin octo as pun with “acting”

Spookery is ruling by enacting hoaxes. Spooks are actors, acting on the public stage. Latin octo “eight” punning with acto “acted” is therefore a straightforward pun. It even works in English, and can be understood by spooklings who don’t speak Latin.

Pun-wise, the 8 is thus a very good hoax marker. However, in terms of being distinct & unambiguous, all single digits are bad hoax markers, because they occur everywhere randomly. The 8 is therefore often combined with 1 or 11 to aces & eights, which works in Latin & Hebrew.

#### Latin octo = eight; acta, acto = acted, played, enacted

octō : eight — Latin (Wikt)

āctus; ācta; āctō : made, done, having been done; perfect passive participle of agō (“make, do”). — Latin (Wikt)

agō; āctus; āctum; āctū : do; make; act, play, perform (e.g., a role in a play) — Latin (Wikt)

āctiō : action; a doing or performing, behavior; (drama) the action, plot, series of events — Latin (Wikt)

## Semitic eight

In the Semitic languages, the 8 is not such a very straightforward pun. The main problem of finding the right pun-connection is that in the Semitic languages (and Egyptian), the spelling & pronunciation of “eight” starts with a different fricative in each case: š, t, ṯ, s, ḫ.

- Hebrew: שמונה šemōnā → √šmn
- Aramaic: ܬ݁ܡܳܢܶܐ tmānyā → √tmn
- Arabic: ثَمَانِيَة ṯamāniyat → √ṯmn
- Akkadian: 𒐆 samānat → √smn
- Egyptian: 𓐍𓏠𓈖𓐁 ḫemen → √ḫmn

So, while searching for puns, it could be any one among these fricatives. My initial pun-choice was Aramaic tmn “eight”punning with ṭmn “hidden” and t-mn “shape”. Hebrew šmn also puns with zmn “planning” & “plotting”. So far, I haven’t found that pun usage in my text analyses though, so I’ll shelve it for now, in favor of the Latin pun above, of octo with “acting”.

The numerology for aces & eights still works in Hebrew though, because chay “life” puns with chawy “show”.

🏷 Latin hoax marker numerology pun · symbol