Quick! - 05/05/02 04:54 PM
What's the difference between an atavism and an avatar?
Re: Quick! - 05/05/02 06:32 PM
Atavisim - tendency to look more like great great great great grandparents than like Mom and Dad! Reversion to an ancestral type!
Avatar - a god come to earth in incarnate form - a manifistation as an object of worship -
Avatar - a god come to earth in incarnate form - a manifistation as an object of worship -
Re: Quick! - 05/06/02 01:30 AM
Ok, Dr. Bill, I'll bite [one foot in the snare e]. This is Wordplay & Fun, so there must be a joke in here. But I'm darned if I can figure it out; here are M-W's def.'s of avatar: 1 : the incarnation of a Hindu deity (as Vishnu)
2 a : an incarnation in human form b : an embodiment (as of a concept or philosophy) often in a person
3 : a variant phase or version of a continuing basic entity
Let's see [second foot in the snare e]: an avatar is a reincarnation, and an atavism, if you don't like it, is a reintarnation?
2 a : an incarnation in human form b : an embodiment (as of a concept or philosophy) often in a person
3 : a variant phase or version of a continuing basic entity
Let's see [second foot in the snare e]: an avatar is a reincarnation, and an atavism, if you don't like it, is a reintarnation?
Re: Quick! - 05/06/02 05:50 AM
'Course, at your age, Bill, you're both at the same time ... 