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- Sat Jul 29, 2006 4:41 pm
- Forum: Good Word Suggestions
- Topic: Epeolatry
- Replies: 11
- Views: 17563
- Sat Jul 29, 2006 4:38 pm
- Forum: Good Word Suggestions
- Topic: Epeolatry
- Replies: 11
- Views: 17563
- Sat Jul 29, 2006 4:36 pm
- Forum: Languages of the World
- Topic: Purifying Persian
- Replies: 56
- Views: 245070
English normally takes foreign words and pronounces them in a way that not rarely doesn't reflect the original pronunciation. So it would be closer to number 1, as described above. Besides, I think the era in which English sucked up foreign words is pretty much over. English is exporting many more w...
- Sat Jul 29, 2006 4:18 pm
- Forum: Good Word Suggestions
- Topic: Epeolatry
- Replies: 11
- Views: 17563
- Sat Jul 29, 2006 4:15 pm
- Forum: Languages of the World
- Topic: Purifying Persian
- Replies: 56
- Views: 245070
Imagine if the British had an Academy with the goal of erasing all foreign words that have snuck into the English language. Here's a useful one (chosen at random, of course): xenophobia. No, I don't think it's a matter of xenophobia. There are certain languages (most?) that don't have certain conso...
- Sat Jul 29, 2006 3:29 pm
- Forum: Good Word Suggestions
- Topic: Epeolatry
- Replies: 11
- Views: 17563
Epeolatry
From the matchless www.worldwidewords.org. Weird Words: Epeolatry The worship of words. Though an appropriate term for this forum, it hasn’t achieved any great success in the world at large. It’s not even especially old, since its first known user, and presumably its creator, was Oliver Wendell Holm...
- Sat Jul 29, 2006 3:01 pm
- Forum: Languages of the World
- Topic: Purifying Persian
- Replies: 56
- Views: 245070
- Sat Jul 29, 2006 2:11 pm
- Forum: Good Word Suggestions
- Topic: Delate
- Replies: 5
- Views: 9584
- Sat Jul 29, 2006 11:12 am
- Forum: Good Word Suggestions
- Topic: Delate
- Replies: 5
- Views: 9584
- Sat Jul 29, 2006 1:06 am
- Forum: Good Word Suggestions
- Topic: ramify
- Replies: 3
- Views: 7707
Funny you should mention ramify. Today I learned an Italian word, ramingo, which means a bird, just after hatching, which hops from branch to branch. Can anybody think of a good English equivalent? And by the way, is there any name for a concept you've never heard of, and then, after the first time ...
- Thu Jul 27, 2006 1:08 pm
- Forum: Res Diversae
- Topic: Chaos
- Replies: 43
- Views: 79696
- Thu Jul 27, 2006 1:05 pm
- Forum: Res Diversae
- Topic: Chaos
- Replies: 43
- Views: 79696
Chaos
I have been following for the past weeks the decadence of this forum and its being changed into a chatroom. I'd hate for it to end up like the other one, which I was (and still am) very attached to. I say this because I think the chatting here is becoming absurd. For this purpose there are other pla...
- Thu Jul 27, 2006 12:30 pm
- Forum: Good Word Suggestions
- Topic: uberty
- Replies: 31
- Views: 101447
- Mon Jul 24, 2006 8:23 pm
- Forum: Good Word Discussion
- Topic: OMNIFARIOUS
- Replies: 6
- Views: 13368
- Mon Jul 24, 2006 11:25 am
- Forum: Good Word Discussion
- Topic: OMNIFARIOUS
- Replies: 6
- Views: 13368