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Oh my, said Alice to the Queen, Words mean just what you say they mean, nothing more and nothing less.
Or Humpty Dumpty to Alice or whatever.
It's always nice if, when confronted by a new word, that one can deduce its meaning from the word itself as well as from the context. Ignoring the fact that ex-wives don't necessarily cease to exist or even cease to be wives, they merely cease to be one specific person's wife, the word adapt breaks up into ad- and apt, the individual elements meaning toward, to and to become fit respectively. Exapt (not exadapt) breaks up into ex- and apt, the ex- meaning out of, from and the apt as before. In the former we are stressing that something has moved toward a use for which it has become fit and in the latter that it has moved from some other use to become fit for a new use. Pre-adapt sounds like introducing a woman as your future ex-wife.
Entire Thread Subject Posted By Posted exaptation wwh 12/15/01 11:05 PM Re: exaptation tsuwm 12/15/01 11:38 PM Re: exaptation wwh 12/16/01 12:20 AM Re: exaptation Sparteye 12/16/01 12:38 AM Re: exaptation tsuwm 12/16/01 12:45 AM Re: exaptation Jackie 12/16/01 02:35 AM Max Quordlepleen 12/16/01 02:37 AM Re: exaptation Jackie 12/16/01 03:02 AM Re: exaptation Sparteye 12/17/01 03:31 AM Re: exaptation Wordwind 12/17/01 09:24 AM Re: exaptation plutarch 12/16/01 03:24 AM Re: exaptation Wordwind 12/16/01 09:15 AM Re: exaptation milum 12/16/01 10:42 AM Re: exaptation wwh 12/16/01 02:24 PM Re: exaptation Capital Kiwi 12/16/01 02:59 PM Re: exaptation Jackie 12/16/01 04:49 PM Re: exaptation stales 12/17/01 12:50 AM Re: exaptation tsuwm 12/17/01 12:58 AM Re: exaptation Jackie 12/17/01 03:24 AM Re: exaptation Faldage 12/17/01 03:03 PM Re: exaptation milum 12/18/01 02:07 PM Re: exaptation (not exadaptation) Faldage 12/18/01 03:00 PM Re: exaptation (not preadaptation) tsuwm 12/18/01 03:34 PM Re: exaptation (not preadaptation) Keiva 12/18/01 03:43 PM Thanks, tsuwm Faldage 12/18/01 05:11 PM Re: Thanks, tsuwm milum 12/18/01 11:18 PM Re: exaptation (not preadaptation) Capital Kiwi 12/27/01 04:05 PM Re: exaptation stales 12/17/01 01:40 AM
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