#12892
12/15/2000 6:40 PM
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...apropos of nothing. I'm perusing(!) a book entitled "Dictionaries : The Art and Craft of Lexicography", and I happen across the word 'polysemous'; so I'm thinking to myself, "it's too bad that this word has only one meaning." http://members.aol.com/tsuwm/pq.htm#polysemous-joe (I wonder where *this thread will go) friday
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#12893
12/16/2000 12:03 AM
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it's too bad that this word has only one meaning
They didn't mention it there, but it also means "consisting of many disparate pieces of cloth sewn together."
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#12894
12/16/2000 12:59 AM
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tsuwm, whaddya mean? It's not clear at all. So vague in meaning that I have trouble distinguishing between the competing possibilities.
I note that above it is Poetaster, which, depending on how you break the syllables, has two completely different but essentially similar meanings.
And, further up yet, there is palooka. I guess this is a less violent type of bazooka.
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#12895
12/16/2000 2:59 AM
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I am also quite certain it pertains to the thread in Wordplay about Rodent and Rat related sayings. As we all know, mice though quite willing, have not managed to grasp the subtleties of English grammar and are generally, as such, wont to spell things phonetically. It doesn’t help that (and they should be pitied for this) they have a teeny tiny pointed mouths with lips that are none too mobile, so they do suffer with a bit of a lisp.
In 1958, after the inauguration of the current Mousal government (after the civil war between the country and city mice) a new polyseforse was established and every member has Polysemous printed up on his badge.
I’m sorry, I though everybody knew this.
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#12896
12/16/2000 5:44 AM
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Bel retaliates: I’m sorry, I though everybody knew this.
No, not everyone. With the polysemousforce (a word formed using the German rule of never using several words where one extremely long one will do), do you get mice ratting on each other?
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#12897
12/16/2000 10:52 AM
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12/16/2000 12:55 PM
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>In 1958, after the inauguration of the current Mousal government (after the civil war between the country and city mice) a new polyseforse was established and every member has Polysemous printed up on his badge.
Yes, bel, that's correct, but the P on their badges was in lower case, as the capitalized form was reserved strictly for the mouse who set forth this policy.
TEd
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12/16/2000 1:44 PM
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Ted thinks: Yes, bel, that's correct, but the P on their badges was in lower case, as the capitalized form was reserved strictly for the mouse who set forth this policy.
I would have thought that that would have been the Policemous ... it follows the established pattern, doesn't it? And that mouse would have had more than one function, in a polysemous kind of way.
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#12900
12/17/2000 7:32 PM
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#12901
12/18/2000 1:00 PM
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#12902
12/19/2000 11:13 AM
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This little subthread reminds me of a conversation between Samuel Beckett and Harold Pinter.
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#12903
12/20/2000 8:41 AM
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Then make mine a pint of Becketts, will you?
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#12904
12/20/2000 2:40 PM
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Hello ................................................................................................................................................................................................................Samuel
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#12905
12/20/2000 2:56 PM
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[jazzo, would you please have a word with jo regarding long posts?]
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