RE: only Dr Scholl knows for sure


Subject: RE: only Dr Scholl knows for sure
From: L. Manning Vines (lmanningvines@hotmail.com)
Date: Wed May 08 2002 - 15:34:08 EDT


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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