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Any change this is somehow related to the "Trainspotting" movie?
Misprounounced version of today's AWAD?
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no chan(c)e, no way. trans- and train are from different Latin roots. - joe (trainspotter ) friday
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a medical word, trans=beyond or thru or across pontine= the pons(bridge) a part of the brain
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And Trainspotting took place entirely north of the
Thames so it was cispontine.
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and speaking of trainspotters, I'm reminded that Elizabeth C contributed the word ferroequinologist to these fora a couple of years ago. - joe (reminder to tsuwm) friday
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Exactly: cisalpine means at this side of the Alps mountains, transalpine at the other side. The location of the referred place depends on from where you are looking. From: somarda
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In medicalese we use ipsilateral (same side) and contralateral.
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Ipsi...is that Latin?
Yes, it is. It's a pronoun that means 'the very one; he himself; the same'. Shows up in the phrase ipse dixit 'he himself said it'.
Ceci n'est pas un seing.
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I'll add that ipse is the emphatic pronoun not the reflexive pronoun since that's not often taught in English.
I wash myself (reflexive)
I wash the dog myself (emphatic)
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