Subject: RE: only Dr Scholl knows for sure
From: L. Manning Vines (lmanningvines@hotmail.com)
Date: Wed May 08 2002 - 13:49:43 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 relevent 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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