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#129176 06/08/04 12:15 PM
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It occurred to me (in a totally irrelevant context) that, if reify is a word composed entirely of affixes, then so is deify. Any comments? Any other words like that?


#129177 06/08/04 01:22 PM
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The re in reify is from Latin res 'thing' and the de in deify is from deus 'god'. There are homonymous prepositions, too. (Of course, I could be missing a joke here as I am wont to do.) Better to think of bus made up as it is of one half of a suffix. Or ism.


#129178 06/08/04 06:09 PM
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The ultimate expression of materialism ...


#129179 06/08/04 08:24 PM
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missing a joke

I *did say if.


#129180 06/09/04 02:21 AM
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