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| Zorndyke Diglot Senior Member Germany Joined 6963 days ago 374 posts - 382 votes  Speaks: German*, English Studies: Czech | Message 57 of 107 25 September 2008 at 10:08am | IP Logged | ||
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Volte, this extension is called the vermiform appendix as it seems.
In its actual context it appears that it referred to the shape of a chair: "Veriform suspensor chairs ringed it, two of them occupied." Edited by Zorndyke on 25 September 2008 at 10:13am 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| pentatonic Senior Member United States Joined 7252 days ago 221 posts - 245 votes | Message 58 of 107 25 September 2008 at 11:12am | IP Logged | ||
Vermiform means in the shape of a worm. Judging by a quick search, your quote comes from Dune and he's talking about floating chairs(!?). It's very possible (probable) that the author just made the word veriform up as a brand name or something. (I have to ask myself if you would've wracked your brain over its meaning had you read this text in German. I'm guessing not.) At any rate, a bit of poetic license perhaps. Don't worry about it. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Volte Tetraglot Senior Member Switzerland Joined 6444 days ago 4474 posts - 6726 votes Speaks: English*, Esperanto, German, Italian Studies: French, Finnish, Mandarin, Japanese | Message 59 of 107 25 September 2008 at 4:00pm | IP Logged | ||
It goes by both names; Histological changes in the veriform appendix on nih.gov uses the veriform spelling - and looks serious enough that it's probably correct - while wikipedia prefers the vermiform spelling, and other sources seem to use a mixture. In the context you gave, it looks like a brand name/marketing term, and simply invented. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| shapd Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 6154 days ago 126 posts - 208 votes Speaks: English* Studies: German, Italian, Spanish, Latin, Modern Hebrew, French, Russian | Message 60 of 107 26 September 2008 at 7:10am | IP Logged | ||
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On the other hand, there are only 10 references in the past 50 years in Pubmed to "veriform" and over 900 to "vermiform" so I suspect they are spelling mistakes!
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 Iversen Super Polyglot Moderator Denmark berejst.dk Joined 6708 days ago 9078 posts - 16473 votes Speaks: Danish*, French, English, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Dutch, Swedish, Esperanto, Romanian, Catalan Studies: Afrikaans, Greek, Norwegian, Russian, Serbian, Icelandic, Latin, Irish, Lowland Scots, Indonesian, Polish, Croatian Personal Language Map | Message 61 of 107 27 September 2008 at 5:03am | IP Logged | ||
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May I suggest that discussion about ver(m)iform stop here? After all this is my profile thread and not a thread about anatomical nomenclature. Edited by Iversen on 27 September 2008 at 7:08am 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| John Smith Bilingual Triglot Senior Member Australia Joined 6047 days ago 396 posts - 542 votes Speaks: English*, Czech*, Spanish Studies: German | Message 62 of 107 17 October 2008 at 8:48am | IP Logged | ||
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Thank you for sharing your language learning techniques with us :)
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| Iversen Super Polyglot Moderator Denmark berejst.dk Joined 6708 days ago 9078 posts - 16473 votes Speaks: Danish*, French, English, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Dutch, Swedish, Esperanto, Romanian, Catalan Studies: Afrikaans, Greek, Norwegian, Russian, Serbian, Icelandic, Latin, Irish, Lowland Scots, Indonesian, Polish, Croatian Personal Language Map | Message 63 of 107 19 October 2008 at 12:44pm | IP Logged | ||
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I shall be happy to oblige.
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| Chamberlain Triglot Newbie BelarusRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 6035 days ago 13 posts - 13 votes Speaks: Belarusian, Russian*, English | Message 64 of 107 14 November 2008 at 8:50am | IP Logged | ||
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Thank you Iversen for the precious information about language aquisition.
I would like to know how you master pronunciation? As far as I understood your technique described above the word lists contain lexical meanings only and never contain any transcriptions. Is there no risk to form mentally a wrong sound of a word and then memorize it? I wish you luck in studying Russian! If you need a native just send me a PM. 1 person has voted this message useful |
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