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Discussion Topic  RE: Interesting Etymologies (in The Vocabulary Forum) by Robert Arvanitis
I ask wordcrafter's indulgence for resurrecting a dormant thread, but bumping into "interesting etym......
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Discussion Topic  Reality-Challenged (in The Vocabulary Forum) by Robert Arvanitis
I've never liked the term "virtual reality," on the belief that "reality" ought not take modifiers. ......
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Discussion Topic  Repetitiously Redundant (in The Vocabulary Forum) by Robert Arvanitis
Or....periphrastically pleonastic. Or....circumlocutory prolixity. When my little guy asked "what d......
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Discussion Topic  RE: The Ides of March: Caesar words (in The Vocabulary Forum) by Robert Arvanitis
Interesting note on double superlatives brings to mind a thought on "grade inflation" for adjectives......
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Discussion Topic  RE: The Ides of March: Caesar words (in The Vocabulary Forum) by Robert Arvanitis
It seems even the Romans "kept up with the Jones.." Agnomen (n.) An additional or fourth name give......
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Discussion Topic  RE: The Ides of March: Caesar words (in The Vocabulary Forum) by Robert Arvanitis
A brief check of National Geographic site confirms the Roman practice, that interest was due on the ......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Diacritical Marks (in Questions & Answers about Words) by Robert Arvanitis
jheem wrote: "Wouldn't somebody in Russian use Cyrillic ш?" I suspect the writer was thinking of ho......
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Discussion Topic  Tonality (in Questions & Answers about Words) by Robert Arvanitis
Listening (involuntarily) to Japanese anime theme music, the thought occurs: What is the interplay ......
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Discussion Topic  Hybrid words (in Questions & Answers about Words) by Robert Arvanitis
No ancient Greek or Roman would have used a word like "carbohydrate," even if they wanted to lose we......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Diacritical Marks (in Questions & Answers about Words) by Robert Arvanitis
Ran across an interesting usage "Taškent," versus the more usual "Tashkent." Someone in the Russian......
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Discussion Topic  Viral Language (in Questions & Answers about Words) by Robert Arvanitis
Has Wordcraft ever had a discussion of "viral language?" By that I mean the differences among (i) a......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Diacritical Marks (in Questions & Answers about Words) by Robert Arvanitis
There is an interesting list of many punctuation marks with origins at: ......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Diacritical Marks (in Questions & Answers about Words) by Robert Arvanitis
First, my thanks to all the kind folks for their welcome to Wordcraft... I've continued to follow l......
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Discussion Topic  Diacritical Marks (in Questions & Answers about Words) by Robert Arvanitis
Interesting notes this week on printers' marks. Anyone know the name for the small circle above a v......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Things that aren't poems... (in The Written Word) by Robert Arvanitis
Kalleh: Recovered this from long ago. Is the site still functional?! Robert...
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Discussion Topic  RE: A question that has me stumped (in Questions & Answers about Words) by Robert Arvanitis
We forget how hard life was for our ancestors, how the plague inspired "ring around the roses" It's ......
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Discussion Topic  RE: A question that has me stumped (in Questions & Answers about Words) by Robert Arvanitis
Guess I'm just lucky with food... ......
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Discussion Topic  RE: A question that has me stumped (in Questions & Answers about Words) by Robert Arvanitis
The flock-passing-smoke / transience is most likely, but I instinctively went to smoked-goose......
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Discussion Topic  Repetitive duplicates (in Questions & Answers about Words) by Robert Arvanitis
Boo boo, cha cha, cous cous, mahi mahi, peri peri, pom pom, shabu shabu, Sing Sing, tom tom... Star......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Reiquepublicae vs Republica (in Questions & Answers about Words) by Robert Arvanitis
In Republica Massachusettensi Senatus et Curatores Omnibus Ad Quo Hae Litterae Pervenerint Salutem i......
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