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Previous Thread Next Thread Print Thread tmesi #194473 12/01/2010 3:46 PM Joined: Jan 2007 Posts: 10 quark stranger quark stranger Joined: Jan 2007 Posts: 10 Now I understand why Messi (FC Barcelona Player) is always surrounded by the other team players... Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: tmesi quark #194478 12/01/2010 4:32 PM Joined: Nov 2010 Posts: 677 Middle Earth bexter addict bexter addict Joined: Nov 2010 Posts: 677 Middle Earth As are you quark, but in hadrons, you are never found alone but together in a teeny weeny hadron Last edited by bexter; 12/01/2010 4:36 PM. ----The next sentence is true. The previous sentence is false---- Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: tmesi quark #194485 12/01/2010 9:17 PM Joined: Aug 2005 Posts: 3,290 R'lyeh zmjezhd Carpal Tunnel zmjezhd Carpal Tunnel Joined: Aug 2005 Posts: 3,290 R'lyeh tmesi The plural of tmesis is tmeses. Ceci n'est pas un seing. Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: tmesi quark #194529 12/02/2010 4:01 PM Joined: Jan 2007 Posts: 10 quark stranger quark stranger Joined: Jan 2007 Posts: 10 And what is the meaning of the plural?? To put various words in the middle of another word or to put just one word, but doing it several times... Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: tmeses quark #194538 12/02/2010 9:22 PM Joined: Aug 2005 Posts: 3,290 R'lyeh zmjezhd Carpal Tunnel zmjezhd Carpal Tunnel Joined: Aug 2005 Posts: 3,290 R'lyeh And what is the meaning of the plural?? Well, you know, the word itself is one from a philological grammatical tradition. Tmesis. in Greek, originally meant 'cutting'. It's related to the words atom (indivisible, uncuttable), -tomy (as in appendectomy), etc. What I take the plural to mean is more than one example of the morphological process of tmesis. (BTW, in Greek, Sanskrit, and Germanic, some languages which have tmesis, separable verbal prefixes can detach under specific conditions from the verb. These verbal particle looks suspiciously like prepositions, but act otherwise. I learned the grammatical meaning of tmesis decades before it was given its expanded meaning of sticking expletives in-between the syllables of exclamations. Regardless, the established plural of tmesis is in established. Ceci n'est pas un seing. Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: tmeses zmjezhd #194539 12/02/2010 9:47 PM Joined: Jun 2006 Posts: 5,295 Netherlands, the Hague BranShea Carpal Tunnel BranShea Carpal Tunnel Joined: Jun 2006 Posts: 5,295 Netherlands, the Hague Hey, yes I looked this up yesterday and saw, learned, that tmesis is much a part of our ordinary grammar. So we can have several tmeses in one sentence. It's just how we intertwine verbs and nouns and prefixes and the whole misjpoche. I never knew the word for it, but I found it through Dutch search. It's called the same. Last edited by BranShea; 12/02/2010 9:49 PM. Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: tmeses quark #194543 12/03/2010 1:51 AM Joined: Mar 2000 Posts: 11,613 Louisville, Kentucky Jackie Carpal Tunnel Jackie Carpal Tunnel Joined: Mar 2000 Posts: 11,613 Louisville, Kentucky It's nice to see you here again, Branny; seemed like you were not with us as much as usual, there for a while. [hug] Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Moderated by  Jackie  Hop To General Topics ------  Information and announcements  Q&A about words  Wordplay and fun  Words and languages in schools  Miscellany  Weekly Themes  Looking for (writers, speakers,... (Old) Weekly themes. (have been... ------  Words from medicine  Beheading words  Meta-words  Words from classical mythology  Animal Safari  Words with unusual etymologies  Eponyms or words derived from p...  Loanwords from German  English as a global language Print Thread Switch to Threaded Mode Show Likes Link Copied to Clipboard View Profile Private Message Follow User Forum Posts Like Summary View Profile Private Message Follow User Forum Posts Like Summary View Profile Private Message Website Follow User Forum Posts Like Summary View Profile Private Message Follow User Forum Posts Like Summary View Profile Private Message Website Follow User Forum Posts Like Summary View Profile Private Message Website Follow User Forum Posts Like Summary View Profile Private Message Follow User Forum Posts Like Summary

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