Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/08/13

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Subject: Re: [Leica] mrs malaprop strikes again
From: Daniel Ridings <daniel.ridings@muspro.uio.no>
Date: Thu, 14 Aug 2003 07:25:19 +0200 (MEST)
References: <auto-000122583963@remt21.cluster1.charter.net>

Hardly, Slobodan ... Latin got daily-used-to-death ... and became French
in one place, Italian in another and Portuguese and Romanian someplace
else.

Took the priests a long time to figure this out, but they finally did. :)



On Wed, 13 Aug 2003, Slobodan Dimitrov wrote:

> Wasn't Latin the last time a European language was thought to be saved from
> the influence of daily usage?
> Slobodan Dimitrov
>
> ----------
> >From: Johnny Deadman <lists@johnbrownlow.com>
> >To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
> >Subject: [Leica] mrs malaprop strikes again
> >Date: Wed, Aug 13, 2003, 3:49 PM
> >
>
> > There's a name for that kind of thing, where you put an inappropriate
> > latinate ending on a latinate word. It's technically incorrect but of
> > course the OED is not an arbiter of correctness only usage. So if a
> > technically incorrect form is used enough, it goes in the dictionary
> > (and may eventually become the 'correct' form). You hear it ALL the
> > time on CNN. "Admittance" or "admittal" instead of "admission",
> > variations of that kind of thing. You even see it in print, especially
> > (for some strange reason) White House press releases, which is
> > inexcusable. It makes me grind my teeth and want to shout at the TV,
> > but I try to control myself for the sake of the children.
> >
> >
> > On Wednesday, August 13, 2003, at 03:35 PM, Chandos Michael Brown wrote:
> >
> >> What can I say?  I cut and pasted from the on-line version of the OED
> >> we
> >> use at the College.  I just checked the print version (I keep the 20
> >> vol. set in my office) and note that "perfidity" appears in vol. XI,
> >> page 541, col. 1.
> >>
> >> I'm too lazy to go and check the Webster's Collegiate in the Dept.
> >> library.
> >>
> >> The OED indicates that this term is "rare."  Doubtless "perfidy" is
> >> more
> >> common, but "perfidity" is most definitely a word.
> > --
> > John Brownlow
> >
> > http://www.pinkheadedbug.com
> > http://www.unintended-consequences.com
> >
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