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#186765 - 09/09/09 11:09 PM quorum
Jackie Carpal Tunnel Registered: 03/15/00 Posts: 11578 Loc: Louisville, Kentucky	Acc'g. to the page where I looked up the quod erat demonstrandum, quorum means "of whom". How therefore did it get to be a noun?
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#186771 - 09/10/09 12:46 AM Re: quorum [Re: Jackie]
zmjezhd Carpal Tunnel Registered: 08/13/05 Posts: 3269 Loc: R'lyeh	quorum means "of whom" And, it's plural. How therefore did it get to be a noun? (Semantic) shift happens! _________________________ Ceci n'est pas un seing.
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#186775 - 09/10/09 06:39 AM Re: quorum [Re: zmjezhd]
Faldage Carpal Tunnel Registered: 12/01/00 Posts: 13654	And ignoramus was a verb. Also plural. First person, no less. Ya swipes a word from some weirdo foreignian language and all the little footnotes and stuff on the back with the circles and errors and stuff kinda gets misread or ignored.
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#186777 - 09/10/09 09:25 AM Re: quorum [Re: Faldage]
zmjezhd Carpal Tunnel Registered: 08/13/05 Posts: 3269 Loc: R'lyeh	Ya swipes a word from some weirdo foreignian language Yes, my favorites are bus, which is an abbreviation off the end of omnibus which in Latin means 'for every (body)', and, then you take the the auto off of automobile and jam it on the front for autobus; auto is from Greek where it means 'he; self'. Now that's one crazy mixed up word, yet nobody blinks as it rumbles by. _________________________ Ceci n'est pas un seing.
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#186779 - 09/10/09 10:10 AM go figure.. [Re: zmjezhd]
tsuwm Carpal Tunnel Registered: 04/03/00 Posts: 10463 Loc: this too shall pass	barbarismus?! Graecimus??
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#187044 - 10/01/09 05:50 AM Re: quorum [Re: Jackie]
wsieber old hand Registered: 03/15/00 Posts: 1010 Loc: Switzerland	placet is another example of such a conversion.
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#187045 - 10/01/09 07:53 AM Re: quorum [Re: wsieber]
zmjezhd Carpal Tunnel Registered: 08/13/05 Posts: 3269 Loc: R'lyeh	placet Yes, as are Latin-to-English audio 'I hear', exit 's/he leaves', and video 'I see'. _________________________ Ceci n'est pas un seing.
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#187050 - 10/01/09 10:14 PM Re: quorum [Re: zmjezhd]
Jackie Carpal Tunnel Registered: 03/15/00 Posts: 11578 Loc: Louisville, Kentucky	Well--I don't know what placet* is, but thanks for the other examples. :-) *plasset? placket? pluh-chet?
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#187052 - 10/02/09 01:38 AM Re: quorum [Re: Jackie]
olly old hand Registered: 12/18/06 Posts: 932 Loc: Auckland, New Zealand	*plasset? placket? pluh-chet? Plassay? Plasset gets my vote of assent.
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#187053 - 10/02/09 02:13 AM Re: quorum [Re: olly]
latishya enthusiast Registered: 11/24/07 Posts: 390 Loc: कहीं &...	Originally Posted By: olly *plasset? placket? pluh-chet? Plassay? Plasset gets my vote of assent. i vote for placket
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