Re: Arthropod flight

"On Tue, 10 Jul 2007 14:15:35 -0000, in article
<uranium-1184076935.054089.149850@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, UC stated..."

On Jul 10, 7:15 am, TomS <TomS_mem...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
"On Tue, 10 Jul 2007 12:07:13 +1000, in article
<1i11ary.1fcdkw1n2391jN%j.wilki...@xxxxxxxxx>, John Wilkins stated..."





Bob Casanova <nos...@xxxxxxxx> wrote:

On Mon, 09 Jul 2007 13:28:31 -0000, the following appeared
in talk.origins, posted by UC <uraniumcommit...@xxxxxxxxx>:

On Jul 8, 6:15 pm, r norman <r_s_norman@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Sun, 08 Jul 2007 15:05:31 -0700, Bob Casanova <nos...@xxxxxxxx>
wrote:
...
Fly fishermen refer to subimagos as "duns" and imagos as
"spinners" (and to nymphs, interestingly enough, as
"nymphs"), the first two of which would probably give UC
heart palpitations.

I think you must really mean cardiac palpitations. It is incorrect
usage to mix Old English/Germanic with Greek/Latin.

RIGHT!

One must, I suppose, admire such single-minded idiocy.

Must one? I mean, really? It's up there with language facism like not
splitting infinitives and ending sentences with prepositions.

This is *English* - if I want to state that humans are apes or birds are
dinosaurs, if I want to mix classical and non classical languages, if I
want to use French, Latin or German phrases in my sentences, if I want
to use contractions, or portmanteaux words (which is a portmanteaux
term), or just plain invent a new meaning by metaphor, analogy, or
onomatopoeia, I damned well will, and my English speaking brethren and
sistren will get it or not, and not because some jumped up fascist
dictator says I can.

Surely r norman was joking. It is impossible to write English at any
length without mixing words of Germanic origin with those of
Latin origins. The strict rule applies, to the best of my knowledge, to
the mixing of Latin with Greek in a single word, such as "automobile".

No, mixing Latin/Greek with Germanic in technical applications is not
good practice.

"Intra-house" comes to mind as one such abomination.

"Einsteinium".


--
---Tom S.
"There was a lot more to magic, as Harry quickly found out, than waving your
wand and saying a few funny words."
JK Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone, Chapter VIII, page 133

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