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...I think...possibly...anyway I recently reread some information on Hugo Gernsback, inventor of the genre of SF (the word at least - he set up a pulp dedicated to it)...he named his scientific fiction stories SCIENTIFICTION (I know it's a mouthful right?) and very shortly the TI bit disappeared and the word became SCIENCE FICTION and then later on SCIFI or SYFY and even later SF...I was wondering if any of you knew of any other words which started out longer and then sort of amalgamated into a shorter word (or two)? (I am also pretty sure that amalgamation is the wrong word but as I can't think of the word that I wanted it shall suffice)...SHEPHERD is one I think...from SHEEP HERDER?
(presque vu I believe it is called when you can't remember a word...you know 'it's on the tip of my tongue')
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presque vu
I think that comes from a passage in Catch 22 and means 'almost seen' in French. When you think you've seen something (almost) but haven't.
As for the other question, some linguists preferred linguistician for a student of linguistics as opposed to linguist for a polyglot.
As for shepherd, its form in Old English is sceāphirde, so in a way it was shortened, but then lots of words were shortened in the transitions from Old to Middle to Present-Day English.
Ceci n'est pas un seing.
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zmjezhdI think that comes from a passage in Catch 22 and means 'almost seen' in French. When you think you've seen something (almost) but haven't. I read up about deja vu recently and found about another vu where the suffers have the continuous feeling that they have lived their whole lives already and are just repeating everything. It has to be done exactly the right way or they get panic attacks and have mental breakdowns. Something along the lines of vecu avant like deja vu but for your whole life
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Movies have been made like that. What a situation to be in.
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I suffer from a slight anxiety disorder (goodness that sounds a) melodramatic and b) really depressing!) that is annoying but I can't imagine how horrible it must be to be in that position - a combination of anxiety and OCD
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Anxiety is terrible. So is depression. I work as a volunteer
with folks in addiction. Many have these.
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he set up a pulp dedicated to it) What is pulp in this sense, please?
Goodbye is an example of what your OP is about.
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A pulp is a magazine printed on low quality paper, so called because often the pulp that composed the paper could be seen in the pages. It generally had the connotation of cheapness.
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Now, 'pulp' is one I understand. Again different parts of
the country, different vocab.
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Yes, that's right...there used to be one for each genre (mainly romantic/thriller) and you might get a bit of one story in each edition amongst other stories...buy the next one to read what happened next sort of thing.
The word pulp however has come to have many more negative concepts added to it that it didn't originally have...started off as being a cheap way of reading literature (aimed at 'the masses') and could be recycled (fires, compost etc) as it was just pulped paper and string
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