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Previous Thread Next Thread Print Thread Page 2 of 2 1 2 Re: The New Yorker #68287 05/08/2002 5:45 PM Anonymous Unregistered Anonymous Unregistered you know precisely what i'm saying ~ unless you're suggesticing that his metamorphisizing of diaeresis into an adjecative was other than epentheticasis Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Raven maniac #68288 05/08/2002 5:46 PM Joined: Aug 2001 Posts: 11,074 Likes: 2 Worcester, MA wofahulicodoc Carpal Tunnel wofahulicodoc Carpal Tunnel Joined: Aug 2001 Posts: 11,074 Likes: 2 Worcester, MA another rhetorical cheval de bataille: epenthesis "Respite, respite and epenthesis," said Poe (almost) (I forget what else he said) Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: The New Yorker #68289 05/08/2002 5:56 PM Joined: Dec 2000 Posts: 13,803 Faldage Carpal Tunnel Faldage Carpal Tunnel Joined: Dec 2000 Posts: 13,803 suggesticing that his metamorphisizing Oh! Duh! He should of said diaeresized! Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: The New Yorker #68290 05/08/2002 5:58 PM Anonymous Unregistered Anonymous Unregistered [smug vindication] Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: The New Yorker #68291 05/08/2002 6:01 PM Joined: Dec 2000 Posts: 13,803 Faldage Carpal Tunnel Faldage Carpal Tunnel Joined: Dec 2000 Posts: 13,803 [smug vindication] But then it would sound like he was saying it was about yea by yea, you know, the size of a diary. Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: The New Yorker #68292 05/08/2002 7:07 PM Joined: Dec 2000 Posts: 544 San Francisco, CA Hyla addict Hyla addict Joined: Dec 2000 Posts: 544 San Francisco, CA Hi guys! What's goin' on? Who we talkin' about, eh? Guess it should have been diåërèsîtïzed (and pronounced "macelleria"). Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: The New Yorker #68293 05/09/2002 2:46 PM Joined: Dec 2000 Posts: 544 San Francisco, CA Hyla addict Hyla addict Joined: Dec 2000 Posts: 544 San Francisco, CA It's called a dieresis and it comes from French. said AnnaS. And my Webster's says it comes from the Greek, via that ol' Latin said the pickeur du les nits, overly quickly. Thinking about this, I miscorrected. While the word diaeresis comes from the Greek, its usage pretty clearly comes from the French, at least in a lot of the diaeresistically-endowed words we've got in English. So correcting AnnaS here was akin to saying the Eiffel Tower ain't French because the word "tower" comes originally from the Latin turris (obviously why so many of 'em go to Eiffel), from the Greek tyrsis. So, we was both right! Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Page 2 of 2 1 2 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 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 View Profile Private Message Follow User Forum Posts Like Summary

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