Re: The Manchester Traffic Problem - your thoughts please!!!

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Huge wrote:


On 2007-03-12, Nick Finnigan <nix@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:



Huge wrote:




conkersack@xxxxxxxxx writes

Anthropogenic


This is English, not Latin or Greek. Get over it.

I'm not under it; other people are complaining about the roots
being heterogenic, or about the meaning being xenogenic.


They need to get lives.

Or bungalows, kayaks and budgerigars.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Lists_of_English_words_of_foreign_origin

It isn't a word of foreign origin.

It's a word constructed from foreign word fragments.


Surely, that has to be the ultimate in pointless pedantry!

Actually, your saying so has to be the ultimate in
missing the point.

"Bungalow", "kayak" and "budgerigar" are foreign
words taken into English, whereas "anthropogenic"
was simply not a word.

The vast majority of words in English are of
foreign origin (mainly: Latin, Greek, Germanic and
French), meaning that this mere fact is
unexceptional. What makes this neologism stand out
is that it was made up on the spot. Not so for
"bungalow", "kayak" and "budgerigar".

All of which was blindingly obvious without laborious and self-justifying explanation.

Not to you, apparently.

Had it been, you would not have missed the point and would not have needed to ask your question.
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