Subject: Re: only Dr Scholl knows for sure
From: Jim Rovira (jrovira@drew.edu)
Date: Wed May 08 2002 - 21:23:22 EDT
I think the etymology worked pretty well this time, esp. since medical
language tends to go straight to the Latin/Greek roots. The genitive is
used, of course, meaning "of..."
Anyway, I appreciated it. Sometimes it's not relevant...words don't
usually carry their entire history with them into current usage, but
sometimes it helps...
Jim
"L. Manning Vines" wrote:
>
> Micaela said:
> << Maybe you missed my post or maybe you wanted to talk about the genitive
> cases of Latin and Greek. Either way, it's like I said (more or less)
> chiropodist=podiatrist. >>
>
> While Greek and Latin morphologies are endlessly fun, there are lists
> similar to this dedicated specifically to them. Frivolous talk of dead
> languages was not my aim. I am on the digest, and so always risk posting
> responses when responses have already been posted; and that notwithstanding,
> there may be more-or-less-equality between the two terms, but I think not
> equality, strictly. It might be relevant to people digging for obscure
> significances that a chiropodist, unlike a podiatrist, should be
> interested in hands as well as feet.
>
> And I had assumed that on a list dedicated to a literature, one should find
> at least a few members interested in the guts of their language, and for
> whom a brief discussion of etymology would be something other than an
> annoyance.
>
> -robbie
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