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"Poster" seems better than being called a poseur, dundit?
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If ujwalm is not slightly amused, or, worse, is offended by the off-thread gibberish which has occupied a part of this thread, then he/she may have a difficult time on this board. Because we are unmoderated, there is always an opportunity for silly business to distract us from our avowed purpose of discussing lexicology. I knew a young fellow once who was strongly attracted to the study of theology and, being of a philosophical bent, was pretty good at it. He decided to go to seminary and was ordained. I asked him a few years later how it was going and he gave me a mixed response. He told me that he "loved the church" but "was sick of the people in it."
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he "loved the church" but "was sick of the people in it."
Customer service department I used to work in had the motto:
"We could have a great business here if it weren't for all the pesky customers."
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It's just like college -- how great would it be without the classes?
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In reply to:
from the Wonderful World of Pantophobia:
atelophobia - the fear of error or imperfection [fr. Gk atelos, imperfect]
hence, atelophobe - the driven perfectionist; one with a morbid fear of having things less than perfect
In the interests of any lurking atelophobes, I should point out that the online LSJ does not have an entry for atelos but for atelhs (where h = eta), and judging by the entry http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/cgi-bin/ptext?doc=Perseus:text:1999.04.0057:entry=#17008 atelhs does not seem to have meant imperfect in the sense of without error anyway.
Edit: On checking again, I see the LSJ also has ateleios, which is simply cross-referenced to atelhs.
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But Greek ατελης (atele:s) seems to be derived from τελος (telos), there being no *τελης (tele:s). The meaning of atele:s is more incomplete or unfinished than blemished. One meaning of telos is tax, so a meaning of atele:s is 'free or exempt from tax, tribute, or tithe'. So, this pretend word atelophobe could just as likely mean 'fear of being taxfree'.
Ceci n'est pas un seing.
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okay, you Greek word gods ;) -- take it up with Charles H. Elster. atelophobia is in his There's a Word for It! [Scribner, 1996].
(and we may never know if it's the word that ujwalm was thinking of..)
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comb. form of Gr. ατελης imperfect, f. α priv.* + telos end, completion; used in many mod. L. terms of physiology, indicating some structural imperfection, as ateloglossia, imperfect development or malformation of the tongue; -gnathia, of the jaws; -myelia, of the spinal marrow; -stomia, of the mouth.
* <shaking head> privative - Having the quality of depriving; tending to take away.
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Welcome, zmjezhd; where is R'lyeh, please?
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