|
|
|
|
Joined: Jun 2002
Posts: 7,210
Carpal Tunnel
|
OP
Carpal Tunnel
Joined: Jun 2002
Posts: 7,210 |
I ran across perspicuous in a Language Log post. seems like a good word, but it was unfamiliar to me. (clearly, my vocab is lacking.) it doesn't show up in etymonline, so I'm not sure about its root, from perspicere. it was an AWAD word a few years back (thanks, Dr. Bill!). anybody use this semi-regularly?
formerly known as etaoin...
|
|
|
|
|
Joined: Apr 2000
Posts: 10,542
Carpal Tunnel
|
|
Carpal Tunnel
Joined: Apr 2000
Posts: 10,542 |
not to be confused with perspicacious (from the same root?) perspicere, to see through OED has them cross-defined; to wit: perspicuous - 4. improperly. Discerning, perspicacious. rare. perspicacious - 3. erron. Clear, translucent, perspicuous. rare.
|
|
|
|
|
Joined: Jun 2002
Posts: 7,210
Carpal Tunnel
|
|
OP
Carpal Tunnel
Joined: Jun 2002
Posts: 7,210 |
> perspicacious
so, user's choice?
formerly known as etaoin...
|
|
|
|
|
Joined: Dec 2000
Posts: 13,803
Carpal Tunnel
|
|
Carpal Tunnel
Joined: Dec 2000
Posts: 13,803 |
Quote:
> perspicacious
so, user's choice?
Depends on whether is yo skin thick enuff to withstand the slings an narrows of outraged prescrips.
|
|
|
|
|
Joined: Oct 2005
Posts: 11
stranger
|
|
stranger
Joined: Oct 2005
Posts: 11 |
I had always understood perspicuous to mean "easily understood" or "clearly expressed" and perspicacious to mean, "having a keen capacity to understand, or mentally penetrate"
|
|
|
|
|
Joined: Jun 2002
Posts: 7,210
Carpal Tunnel
|
|
OP
Carpal Tunnel
Joined: Jun 2002
Posts: 7,210 |
well, Rhub, you're obviously perspicacious, that reply was perspicuous. 
formerly known as etaoin...
|
|
|
|
Forums16
Topics13,913
Posts229,809
Members9,187
| |
Most Online3,341
Dec 9th, 2011
|
|
|
0 members (),
982
guests, and
1
robot. |
|
Key:
Admin,
Global Mod,
Mod
|
|
|
|
|
|
