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Page 4 of 6 < 1 2 3 4 5 6 > Topic Options #182408 - 02/04/09 06:22 PM Re: Cancer [Re: LukeJavan8] The Pook old hand Registered: 02/20/08 Posts: 1067 Loc: 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. Top #182419 - 02/04/09 09:18 PM Re: Cancer [Re: The Pook] Faldage Carpal Tunnel Registered: 12/01/00 Posts: 13803 Shouldn't the opposite of heterodox be homodox? And the opposite of orthodox would be levodox. Top #182421 - 02/04/09 10:26 PM (alert: nerd joke) [Re: Faldage] wofahulicodoc Carpal Tunnel Registered: 08/06/01 Posts: 6785 Loc: 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) Top #182428 - 02/05/09 09:48 AM Re: (alert: nerd joke) [Re: wofahulicodoc] Buffalo Shrdlu Carpal Tunnel Registered: 06/24/02 Posts: 7210 Loc: Vermont heh _________________________ formerly known as etaoin... Top #182441 - 02/05/09 09:47 PM follow-up [Re: Buffalo Shrdlu] wofahulicodoc Carpal Tunnel Registered: 08/06/01 Posts: 6785 Loc: 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. Edited by wofahulicodoc (02/05/09 09:48 PM) Edit Reason: Nope - it was Jan 31! Top #182467 - 02/07/09 04:36 PM Re: follow-up [Re: wofahulicodoc] BranShea Carpal Tunnel Registered: 06/23/06 Posts: 5295 Loc: Netherlands, the Hague Those spiders are so fast that sometimes you find something out there you hadn't even written yet. (*_-) Top #182469 - 02/08/09 10:09 AM the care and feeding of spiders [Re: BranShea] wofahulicodoc Carpal Tunnel Registered: 08/06/01 Posts: 6785 Loc: Worcester, MA They must have been grown up eating thiotimoline Top #194657 - 12/07/10 04:27 AM Re: Cancer [Re: Gizmo] miramar stranger Registered: 12/07/10 Posts: 1 Great discussion. Top #194661 - 12/07/10 11:01 AM Re: Cancer [Re: miramar] LukeJavan8 Carpal Tunnel Registered: 06/23/08 Posts: 8429 Loc: 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---- Top #194665 - 12/07/10 12:26 PM Re: Cancer [Re: LukeJavan8] snoot journeyman Registered: 11/18/01 Posts: 74 You mean that just saying 'Welcome' doesn't add anything to the dialectic of the forum? /sarcasm _________________________ The Lone Haranguer Top Page 4 of 6 < 1 2 3 4 5 6 > Previous Topic Index Next Topic Preview 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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