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LINGUISTICS: contributions of Latin and Greek to English
I've come up with some unique derivations. DOG means "pointer," related to DIGITUS "finger" and INDICATE. MOON is related to MINUS, because in primitive times it seemed to get smaller and disappear. ONE is related to UNCIA, meaning "fingernail," because primitives counted by touching their...- NewPrometheus
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- Forum: Art, History, and Linguistics
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LINGUISTICS: contributions of Latin and Greek to English
I've noticed that a lot of words have their consonants transposed, such asspill and slip within English. So I think that cowis a tranposition of the Latin root vaca (as in "vaccine), when the v was pronounced like a w.- NewPrometheus
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- Forum: Art, History, and Linguistics
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Discussing Ayn Rand: Philosophical Innovations and Dogmatism
Most people can't see how she perverted a good idea, so they get sidetracked into a conflict between selfishness and altruism. Selvishness for whom? Parasitism for whom? She believed in Investor Supremacy, not Inventor Supremacy. The key event in Atlas Shrugged reveals a double bias in...- NewPrometheus
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- Forum: General Discussion