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#43361 09/30/01 12:50 PM
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You too can be euphasic.


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<<you too can be euphasic.>>

heh?
or
you got me again, doc bill, what's euphasic?


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Dear IP: perhaps you missed the URL I gave to the Hellatine Dictionary. It contains amusing coinages.
I used them to tease you mildly, no offense intended. Just type the name into Yahoo! search box, and you will see URL. Hope they amuse you. Bill


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Dear Dr. Bill,

No offense tendered and none returned in change--and that no matter who might ever initiate a transaction between us, I trust.

As to euphasia, I plead ignorance of your meaning. The question gains relevance, then, what coin the state of metaeuphasis might ment. For, I contend, I am anchored in the very bedrock of reality.


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Superfiscous, n that which is the very surface, the event of appearance, non-being as specific in time space, or in experience.

But why would we not simply use the existing 'superficial'?
How would you pronounce it?


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>But why would we not simply use the existing 'superficial'?

yes, well perhaps it's just supererogatory.


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<<But why not use the existing word, "superficial."

The definition offered reflects my understanding of the author's intention. At the risk of being thought Mediaeval, what interested me vis-a-vis "superficious" was the substantiation of a quality. The noun form of the word, giving substance to something which otherwise, as adjective, refers to nothing more than the quality of a substance. By making substantial a thing which, by definition, is without independent existence, the author touches on an abiding obsession of mine. The notion is loosely related to Augustine's paradox of time which tswum raised in an antebabelian thread. On a more playful note, it relates to a word recently tendered by Dr. Bill, "anaphasia."


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