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| Theodisce Octoglot Senior Member Poland Joined 5886 days ago 127 posts - 167 votes  Speaks: Polish*, Latin, Ancient Greek, Russian, Czech, French, English, German Studies: Italian, Spanish, Slovak, Ukrainian, Serbo-Croatian, Greek, Portuguese | Message 2 of 8 27 December 2008 at 1:16pm | IP Logged | ||
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Just another folk etymology.
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| Chung Diglot Senior Member Joined 7156 days ago 4228 posts - 8259 votes 20 sounds Speaks: English*, French Studies: Polish, Slovak, Uzbek, Turkish, Korean, Finnish | Message 3 of 8 27 December 2008 at 2:40pm | IP Logged | ||
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What's with the obsession with beating one's chest about Greek origins (true or false) in the etymology of English? Are we supposed to interpret this as "proof" or a reminder of English-speakers' debt to a bygone era in Greek history?
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| Goindol Senior Member United States Joined 6074 days ago 165 posts - 203 votes | Message 5 of 8 27 December 2008 at 3:40pm | IP Logged | ||
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Are you going to start a thread whenever you come up with a tenuous etymological connection or confuse cognates with derivatives?
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| Akbaboy Hexaglot Newbie United States Joined 5788 days ago 35 posts - 36 votes Speaks: English*, German, Portuguese, Cantonese, Catalan, French Studies: Mandarin, Spanish, Dutch | Message 7 of 8 19 January 2009 at 4:30pm | IP Logged | ||
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I know that "alphabet" actually comes the 2 letters "alpha" (A) and "beta" (B)..... together, it says "alphabeta"....
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 Hencke Tetraglot Moderator Spain Joined 6894 days ago 2340 posts - 2444 votes Speaks: Swedish*, Finnish, EnglishC2, Spanish Studies: Mandarin Personal Language Map | Message 8 of 8 20 January 2009 at 6:20am | IP Logged | ||
I agree with Goindol that it seems excessive with a new thread or two every other day to explain the Greek origins of one individual vocabulary item. While the posts are potentially interesting as such, and definitely on-topic for the forum, I doubt it is the most effective way to help students who are interested in the Greek language, and it can be a little disruptive to all others. Maybe it would be more effective to collect these pearls of wisdom in just one thread. Edited by Hencke on 20 January 2009 at 6:23am 1 person has voted this message useful |
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