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Posted By: wwh ubiety - 07/09/02 12:48 PM
If "ubiety" is "whereness", who can coin a word for "thereness"? Remember Gertrude Stein/Alice B Toklas:
"There's no there there." ?

Posted By: wwh Re: ubiety - 07/09/02 02:29 PM
Aw, shucks, fellas. Ubi = where, ibi= there. So the twin to "ubiety" could be "ibiety".
So Stein's phrase could be: There's no ibiety there. Incidentally, she was talking about
Oakland, CA, so long ago it must have been pretty small almost a hundred years ago,
compared to Paris, which Stein loved so much.

Posted By: tsuwm Re: ubiety - 07/09/02 03:17 PM
nullibiety (or nullibicity) - the condition or state of being nowhere

Posted By: FishonaBike Re: ubiety - 07/09/02 03:32 PM
the condition or state of being nowhere

So is definitive nullibiety the condition or state of being nowhere in particular?

Posted By: Wordwind Re: ubiety - 07/09/02 07:43 PM
How 'bout ubiquitous nullibeity, the state of being nowhere everywhere?

Posted By: wwh Re: ubiety - 07/09/02 08:07 PM
But "whereness" doesn't come out as well. "Hic" is adv. here, "Hac" is adj. here. Hicety, Hacety. Just don't have any class. A hic jacet was special garment for drunks.

Posted By: wwh Re: ubiety - 07/10/02 01:35 AM
Ubiety suffuses Milosz's work, though he says that
`whether I wanted this to happen or not, the landscapes
of California have merged with the landscapes of
Lithuania.'" David Kipen, ABCs of Milosz -- A Life in
Letters, The San Francisco Chronicle, Mar 21, 2001.

Sinehow it seems to me that a guy who thinks California can be merged with Lithuania
doesn't know what "ubiety" means.

Posted By: FishonaBike Re: ubiety - 07/11/02 01:38 PM
Is there a word for elsewhereness, folks ?

Posted By: wwh Re: ubiety - 07/11/02 04:26 PM
Maybe you could coin one from Peter Pan's Never-Never Land.

Posted By: FishonaBike Re: ubiety - 07/11/02 10:39 PM
you could coin one from Peter Pan's Never-Never Land.

OK!

elsewhereness = panubiety

Posted By: Sparteye Re: ubiety - 07/12/02 04:38 PM
Wouldn't panubiety be "everywhereelseness"?

Posted By: FishonaBike Re: ubiety - 07/12/02 09:10 PM
Wouldn't panubiety be "everywhereelseness"?

Actually this relates to that panspermia thread - pan- means everywhere/universal, not "everywhere but where we are".

So panubiety means "everywhere that is 'there'"-ness = everywhereelseness [bugger to spell, that]

SO you're dead right, Spartan

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