Re: Rounding errors

From: Robert Wagner (robert_at_wagner.net.yourmammaharvests)
Date: 08/31/04 

Date: Tue, 31 Aug 2004 07:34:54 GMT

On Mon, 30 Aug 2004 14:34:05 -0700, "Chuck Stevens"
<charles.stevens@unisys.com> wrote:

>"Robert Wagner" <robert@wagner.net.yourmammaharvests> wrote in message
>news:fo07j05mcb78ga01l7i9l9tslce0f7sn33@4ax.com...
>> On 30 Aug 2004 05:36:15 -0400, docdwarf@panix.com wrote:
>>
>> >... this is the kind of paranoid, self-pitying, passive-aggressive
>> >delusion often suffered by one whose progenitors were consanguinaceous,
>> >aye.
>>
>> When using big words to call someone stupid, it is really important to
>> spell them right. Otherwise, you look like the fool.
>
>Hm. I personally have no problem with someone combining a stem and a suffix
>to produce a term that more accurately represents the author's intent than a
>more-commonly-used form -- such has been characteristic of both Germanic and
>Romance languages for some time now.

What we see in evidence raises CLC to a new level of comedic
absurdity. The diminuitive doctor makes a stupid spelling error and
the august Chuck Stevens rises to his defense. I am, as they say,
rolling on the floor laughing.

>I see a subtle distinction between the suffixes "-aceous" and "-[e]ous".
>The root -- "consanguin-" -- is common to both. I believe both the meaning,
>and the distinction between the term used and the more common word in
>Webster's, is clear based on the fundamental rules of compound formation in
>English. The fact that a particular compound does not appear in an
>accepted English dictionary does not necessarily mean that the compound word
>does not express a valid meaning in English, nor does it mean that the
>compound is obviously a misspelling of a word that *is* present in such a
>dictionary.

He is saying my parents were relatives. I didn't grow up in West
Virginia, I grew up on Long Island .. where consonants are replaced by
ugly vowel sounds. There is no "R" in New York, the "R" sounds vaguely
like an "O" or "W". New Yoook.

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