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you know precisely what i'm saying ~ unless you're suggesticing that his metamorphisizing of diaeresis into an adjecative was other than epentheticasis
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another rhetorical cheval de bataille: epenthesis
"Respite, respite and epenthesis," said Poe (almost)
(I forget what else he said)
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suggesticing that his metamorphisizing
Oh! Duh! He should of said diaeresized!
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[smug vindication]
But then it would sound like he was saying it was about yea by yea, you know, the size of a diary.
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Hi guys!
What's goin' on? Who we talkin' about, eh?
Guess it should have been diåërèsîtïzed (and pronounced "macelleria").
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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!
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