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#199740 05/10/11 11:05 AM
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I have seen, and can't remember, the word for 'long shadows.' Assistance will be appreciated!

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There's a word for it? I would have thought 'long shadows' would have done the trick.

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How long should they be to deserve a special word?

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Ha....good question, Bran

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Originally Posted By: Faldage
There's a word for it? I would have thought 'long shadows' would have done the trick.


sorry to disappoint, but..

Main Entry: mac·ro·scian
Function: adjective
Etymology: Greek makroskios
: having or casting a long shadow
< that macroscian day which I had dreaded for so long -- Osbert Sitwell >
[W3]

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Originally Posted By: tsuwm
Originally Posted By: Faldage
There's a word for it? I would have thought 'long shadows' would have done the trick.


sorry to disappoint, but..

Main Entry: mac·ro·scian
Function: adjective
Etymology: Greek makroskios
: having or casting a long shadow
< that macroscian day which I had dreaded for so long -- Osbert Sitwell >
[W3]


ooh, I like that word.

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< that macroscian day which I had dreaded for so long -- Osbert Sitwell > [W3]

I see, many hours long.

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Good discussion your question started. Welcome JRP


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"fr. Gk makros, long + skia, shadow] /muh KRASH iun/
[adj.] having a long shadow; [n] a person whose shadow
is long, spec. an inhabitant of the polar regions
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I bet in the polar regions the shadow projections must be the longest on earth? And in summer the days without end?

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macroscian

It's a great word, but unfortunately one would have to return to the easily understandable "long shadows" to gloss it, if one hoped to be understood by more than 0.05% of the Anglophone population.


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