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06/30/2001 9:29 PM
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Thanks, tsuwm...now I can add hetero-- to my --nym list! And, realizing in retrospect that this is probably a big YART to the Long-Time Legends of the Board (sorry, I was too hot. tired, and lazy to do a search that night), I thought, perhaps, we could turn this into a New --Nym thread to list new, strange, and interesting Wordonyms. For instance, so far on this thread I've added capitonym and heteronym to my own --nymlist. Precluding the common and obvious such as synonym, homonym, antonym, tsuwmnym, Jackienym,  etc. , and making allowance for --nym derivatives such as homograph, how many strange Wordonyms are out there? capitonym, heteronym......and they're off! as per Jackie's and wow's request I'm starting a new thread for this at the fun place!  (Jackie, you can zip your follow-up over here if you want...all others, see "Does Does: is there a --nym for it?" (there! I used quotes again and I'm damned proud of it!) over on Q & A.
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#34397
06/30/2001 9:39 PM
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Thank you, Sweetie.
Now: when I praise, thank, oh heck worship the person who
has allowed us to have all this fun, I am using an Anu-nym.
Jacque-nym
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#34398
06/30/2001 10:01 PM
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Hyponymy is the relation that holds, for instance, between scarlet and red, or between tulip and flower, in English; i.e., scarlet is a hyponym of, is included in, red. and here's one we should know: a metonym is a word used in a transferred sense. then there is paranym, a near-synonym. which itself became a metonym when a newspaper columnist began collecting what *he called ‘paranyms’ — words whose meaning is generally the opposite of that intended by the speaker, such as ‘provisional’ or ‘liberation’ or ‘rationalise’; the writer Brian Aldiss thereupon contributed an example he had found in the New Testament: ‘“ever~lasting life”; in other words “death”’.
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06/30/2001 10:55 PM
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and here's one we should know: a metonym is a word used in a transferred sense.Oh, that is bad.
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07/01/2001 2:04 AM
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: a metonym is a word used in a transferred sense.
I would have thought it was a metronome without an e ... virtually counting the beat 1-2-3-4 ...
The idiot also known as Capfka ...
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07/01/2001 8:55 AM
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tsuwm adds scarlet is a hyponym of, is included in, redSo is red a hypernym of scarlet?
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07/02/2001 3:22 PM
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Marianna asks So is red a hypernym of scarlet?
If not, it should be.
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07/02/2001 5:48 PM
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I like retronyms, specifiying words to distinguish the general word from a more common specific one. I'm not explaining it very well, but the examples that leap to mind are "black-and-white television" (as opposed to "color"), "acoustic guitar" (as opposed to "electric"), and "snail mail" (as opposed to "e"). Crossing threads, perhaps we need to start using a retronym for "built architecture" or "bricks-and-mortar architecture" to distinguish it from the new-fangled computer kind (at least buildings won't be "architected" any time soon -- or at least I hope not!).
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07/02/2001 6:01 PM
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buildings won't be "architected" any time soonBut perhaps cities will be.
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07/02/2001 6:10 PM
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heteronym It has occurred to me, in retrospect, that in reply to my original post about does & does where tsuwm offered heteronym as a contrast to homonym, there could be some chicanery afoot. Homo and Hetero ...hmmm...is there a chance, tsuwm, that you were ever-so-succinctly putting me on? 
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07/02/2001 6:23 PM
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Homo and Hetero
The opposite of hetero is ortho
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07/03/2001 2:49 AM
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The opposite of hetero is ortho. Sure, Faldage! But not in the sexual "tense"!
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07/04/2001 2:35 PM
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So is red a hypernym of scarlet?If not, it should be.Well, it turns out it's not needed. Red would be a superordinate of scarlet. Apparently, it's superordinates and hyponyms.
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07/04/2001 3:07 PM
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"The opposite of hetero is ortho"
And I in my ignorance would have said the opposite of "hetero " was "iso", and the opposite of "ortho" was "laevo"
At least sometimes.
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07/04/2001 3:14 PM
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And I in my ignorance would have said the opposite of "hetero " was "iso",
Ah, the lightness of levity and the graveness of gravity...
So the opposite of heterosexual is isosexual?
And the opposite of orthodox is lævodox?
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07/04/2001 5:48 PM
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Isosexual just didn't get invented soon enough. And laevodoxy was Communism.
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07/05/2001 12:18 PM
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laevodoxy was Communism*
Don't tell that to the early Christians.
*Ænigma proclaims that Lafayette was communist!
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