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Previous Thread Next Thread Print Thread Page 4 of 6 1 2 3 4 5 6 #182408 - 02/04/09 11:22 PM Re: Cancer [Re: LukeJavan8]   Joined: Feb 2008 Posts: 1,067 The Pook old hand The Pook   old hand Joined: Feb 2008 Posts: 1,067 Tasmania Originally Posted By: LukeJavan8 To say nothing of Chacedonians, Nestorians, Monophysites. I'm with etaoin: out of here for now. Actually (getting back to the words themselves...) that raises the whole interesting history of the construction of words to describe heterodox and orthodox beliefs (even those two words are interesting as well). That would be Chalcedonians I presume, btw. #182419 - 02/05/09 02:18 AM Re: Cancer [Re: The Pook]   Joined: Dec 2000 Posts: 13,803 Faldage Carpal Tunnel Faldage   Carpal Tunnel Joined: Dec 2000 Posts: 13,803 Shouldn't the opposite of heterodox be homodox? And the opposite of orthodox would be levodox. #182421 - 02/05/09 03:26 AM (alert: nerd joke) [Re: Faldage]   Joined: Aug 2001 Posts: 7,499 wofahulicodoc Carpal Tunnel wofahulicodoc   Carpal Tunnel Joined: Aug 2001 Posts: 7,499 Worcester, MA from biology to organic chemistry: Must things always be either/or ? if you add two radicals to a six-cornered benzene ring you can put them in positions called ortho- (adjacent) or para- (opposite) or meta- (separated by one). Then you can have "orthodox" and "paradox" and "metaphysicians" (ducking-to-avoid-the-thrown-vegetables smiley) #182428 - 02/05/09 02:48 PM Re: (alert: nerd joke) [Re: wofahulicodoc]   Joined: Jun 2002 Posts: 7,210 Buffalo Shrdlu Carpal Tunnel Buffalo Shrdlu   Carpal Tunnel Joined: Jun 2002 Posts: 7,210 Vermont heh formerly known as etaoin... #182441 - 02/06/09 02:47 AM follow-up [Re: Buffalo Shrdlu]   Joined: Aug 2001 Posts: 7,499 wofahulicodoc Carpal Tunnel wofahulicodoc   Carpal Tunnel Joined: Aug 2001 Posts: 7,499 Worcester, MA it seems to be going around. I just found this on Google, and it was posted January 29, 2009, it says. And I see this very thread is on there too (googled "orthodox paradox metaphysicians"), and I posted it less than 24 hours ago. I had no idea Google was that efficient...maybe that's what the visiting Spiders do? Incidentally - when I first came across that joke many years ago the add-on was not "-DOC" but "-MD." Same translation, though. Last edited by wofahulicodoc; 02/06/09 02:48 AM. Reason: Nope - it was Jan 31! #182467 - 02/07/09 09:36 PM Re: follow-up [Re: wofahulicodoc]   Joined: Jun 2006 Posts: 5,295 BranShea Carpal Tunnel BranShea   Carpal Tunnel Joined: Jun 2006 Posts: 5,295 Netherlands, the Hague Those spiders are so fast that sometimes you find something out there you hadn't even written yet. (*_-) #182469 - 02/08/09 03:09 PM the care and feeding of spiders [Re: BranShea]   Joined: Aug 2001 Posts: 7,499 wofahulicodoc Carpal Tunnel wofahulicodoc   Carpal Tunnel Joined: Aug 2001 Posts: 7,499 Worcester, MA They must have been grown up eating thiotimoline #194657 - 12/07/10 09:27 AM Re: Cancer [Re: Gizmo]   Joined: Dec 2010 Posts: 1 miramar stranger miramar   stranger Joined: Dec 2010 Posts: 1 Great discussion. #194661 - 12/07/10 04:01 PM Re: Cancer [Re: miramar]   Joined: Jun 2008 Posts: 8,978 LukeJavan8 Carpal Tunnel LukeJavan8   Carpal Tunnel Joined: Jun 2008 Posts: 8,978 Land of the Flat Water WELCOME MIRAMAR But no one has added anything since Feb 09 to this thread. Maybe you could contribute and get it going again. ----please, draw me a sheep---- #194665 - 12/07/10 05:26 PM Re: Cancer [Re: LukeJavan8]   Joined: Nov 2001 Posts: 74 snoot journeyman snoot   journeyman Joined: Nov 2001 Posts: 74 You mean that just saying 'Welcome' doesn't add anything to the dialectic of the forum? /sarcasm The Lone Haranguer Page 4 of 6 1 2 3 4 5 6 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. 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