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Posted: **Sat Jun 25, 2005 10:21 am**

In accordance with the new 'rules I'll just post the who,what,where,why and how paragraph you may check out the rest of the story, which, btw is not really about the child... but about emerging words "coinage" if you will.

Forgottenly? It isn't acceptable yet, but surely the world of lexicography should open its doors and let the adverb in. Granted, it does not fall trippingly on the tongue, but it precisely identifies a failing that differs significantly from "accidentally" or "mistakenly." True, Webster's defines "accidental" as something that happens "without intent or through carelessness and often with unfortunate results," but there's a distinction. Last month we read of a motorist in Florida who filled his gas tank and drove away with the hose still attached. He did this accidentally, yes, but more precisely he did this forgottenly. It is something to remember.

see:boy forgottenly left....
I wasn't sure which catagory this section belonged in, but it didn't have a good "emerging words" section so......

Katy

Posted: **Sat Jun 25, 2005 11:18 am**

I think I've heards things like aniversário de seis meses used in Portuguese too and it never struck me as odd, which is odd by itself. Probably people relate anniversary to a celebration and forget that an annum has to vertere (turn) for that to happen.

Brazilian dude

Posted: **Sat Jun 25, 2005 3:15 pm**

So would that be a semianniversary?

-Tim

Posted: **Sat Jun 25, 2005 3:34 pm**

This thread reminded of this, which I read a couple of weeks ago:

fünfjähriges Jubiläum

Ein vierzigjähriges Dienstjubiläum, das hundertjährige Stadtjubiläum – solche Fügungen gehen uns leicht über die Lippen, doch sind sie auch korrekt?
Im Grunde genommen ist es tatsächlich falsch, von einem fünf-, zehn-, fünfzigjährigen usw. Jubiläum zu sprechen, denn damit wird eigentlich gesagt, dass das Jubiläum fünf, zehn, fünfzig usw. Jahre alt ist. Diese Ausdrucksweise hat sich jedoch inzwischen derart etabliert, dass sie oft gar nicht mehr als falsch empfunden wird. Man hat also gute Chancen, nicht »erwischt« zu werden, sofern man nicht auf gut informierte Duden-Newsletter-Leser(innen) trifft. Doch wir wollen Sie an dieser Stelle natürlich nicht zu »Falschaussagen« verleiten.
Besser ist es, von vornherein die sichere Variante zu wählen und auf Formulierungen wie das Jubiläum des hundertjährigen Bestehens der Stadt, der Duden wird in diesem Jahr 125 Jahre alt u. Ä. auszuweichen.
Auf Glückwunschkarten beispielsweise kann man auch noch ein bisschen weiter ausholen: Am 30. Juni jährt es sich zum zwanzigsten Mal, dass Sie... Zu diesem Jubiläum gratulieren wir ganz herzlich!

Brazilian dude

P.S. I struggled and struggled, but the url thingie is not working properly.

Posted: **Sat Jun 25, 2005 4:19 pm**

BD, your [ /url ] closing code is way at the end of your post, which I don't believe you intended.

Is this the article you were trying to post?

Der Duden-Newsletter feiert sein fünfjähriges Jubiläum!

-Tim

Posted: **Sat Jun 25, 2005 5:46 pm**

BD, your [ /url ] closing code is way at the end of your post, which I don't believe you intended.

It is what I intended, isn't it? But anyway yours is right, Tim.

Brazilian dude

Posted: **Sat Jun 25, 2005 5:47 pm**

If someone is celebrating their 11-month anniversary, is that a quasi-anniversary?

Brazilian dude

Posted: **Sat Jun 25, 2005 11:01 pm**

BD, you just reminded me of something that had receded far into the depths of my memories...

Prior to marriage, when Shannon and I were dating, we celebrated every month on the date that we had begun dating. The first month was our one-month-aversary, the second our two-month-aversary, etc.

So our 11th month was our eleven-month-aversary.

I had almost forgotten all about that!

-Tim

Posted: **Sun Jun 26, 2005 12:05 am**

Tim, that's understandable. It's the woman who's in charge of keeping track of all the dates and will nag you in case you forget them (at least so I'm told).

Brazilian dude

Posted: **Sun Jun 26, 2005 1:48 am**

Tim, that's understandable. It's the woman who's in charge of keeping track of all the dates and will nag you in case you forget them (at least so I'm told).

Brazilian dude

not necessarily

Katy

Posted: **Mon Jun 27, 2005 1:18 pm**

Would it be a Freudian Slip to call it a 30-year adversity?

Of course a 30-year anadversity would be 30 years without adversity.