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... , Portsmouth , Stratford (no idea what the originals were). -- a very few words, possibly village , wine mount(ain) , street , city , port (gate). Obviously these are not the only Latinate words in English, but most of those came later. Question: why didn't Latin survive? - the lower classes never really spoke Latin. - many of the Latin-speaking Romano-British fled to Gaul after ...

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Latinate words, you are my bane.

...a speaker of a Germanic language, in a world that has an Alexandrian Empire and lacks a Roman Empire. Their main southern contact language is Greek. I am coming to discover just how many English herb names are Latinate. And yes, I should have known this. Bad linguist, no cookie. Now that I know, though, it's driving me up the wall. I could use some Greek names, where there isn't a Germanic root...

Abbreviations and borrowed words

... intact (doublethink, d'oh, grinch); sometimes as genericization of brand names (kleenex, xerox, google); sometimes by onomatopoeia (moo, splash, buzz); sometimes built out of greek or latinate roots and/or affixes (agoraphobia, platypus, pescatarian) or english words or affixes (piggyback, disinterested, sandpaper); sometimes by outright invention (wi-fi, grok); sometimes as euphemisms (downsize,...

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... could a young poet do, overwhelmed by the courtly master's flattery, except promise softly, "I will try." The effort didn't take her very far, she was far more interested in Latin and latinate languages. "It is clear from all the testimony that Katherine and Edith were extremely serious persons in those first years at Stoke Bishop, a fact which seems to have borne rather hard on the young men of ...

can you hear a lark in any other part of town

...noun Circumlocution. [From Latin circum- (around) + English bend + Latin -ibus.] "There are times when [George] Steiner does the exact opposite, dressing up banalities in the most clotted, Latinate and circumbendibus waffle in order to make them appear profound." Christopher Hart; Speaking in Tongues; Sunday Times (London, UK); Jan 6, 2008. bereft Pronunciation: bê-reft Part of Speech: ...

Let's Talk About Religion and Spirituality; Or, Let's Talk About Community and Me.

... it. The speaker did not go into the more convincing arguments that engage his thesis--one might argue that this was an "issue of time". But shouldn't we then sacrifice at least a few latinate flourishes (as much as I love language) if they hinder the movement of an idea? To the benefit of the audience, there is a time set aside to address specific questions through discussion. These questions ...

50 book challenge

... how things play themselves out. Oh, bring your European language (both modern and ancient) dictionaries with you for this one. It doesn't impede you from understanding the story to not be familiar with Latinate and Germanic languages but it certainly does flesh some things out. 2)American Gods by Neil Gaiman America has no gods. Or does it? I really enjoyed this one, enough to blow through it ...

Word for the day...

...the English vocabulary since the 1300s), but it wasn’t in general use before the 19th century. When it was used in a 16th-century translation of the Bible, some folks derided it as pretentious and Latinate. One critic lumped it with other “ridiculous inkhorn terms” and another went as far as to write, “Neophyte, to a bare Englishman is nothing at all.” The criticisms of “neophyte” weren’t entirely...