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- From: nelson@reed.edu (Nelson Minar)
- Newsgroups: soc.motss
- Subject: Re: What Gay Sex (was Re: How Many Homosexuals?)
- Message-ID: <1992Nov17.000530.29451@reed.edu>
- Date: 17 Nov 92 00:05:30 GMT
- Article-I.D.: reed.1992Nov17.000530.29451
- References: <1992Nov16.170351.22048@macc.wisc.edu> <102165@bu.edu> <1992Nov16.193007.28411@macc.wisc.edu>
- Reply-To: nelson@reed.edu (Nelson Minar)
- Organization: Reed College, Portland, OR
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- In article <102165@bu.edu> kane@buast7.bu.edu (Hot Young Star) writes:
- >au.toch.tho.nous \o.-'ta:k-th*-n*s\ \-ne-\ aj : INDIGENOUS, NATIVE
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- In article <1992Nov16.193007.28411@macc.wisc.edu> anderson@macc.wisc.edu (Jess Anderson) writes:
- >autochthonous adj
- > syn NATIVE 2, aboriginal, endemic, indigenous
- > con alien, extraneous, extrinsic, foreign; imported, introduced
- > ant naturalized
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- damn, and here I'd parsed "autochthonous" as
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- auto-chthonous
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- which any student of obscure words will recognize as being a bizarre
- way to say "self-destructive". Maybe I should give my queer wordsmith
- card a rest for a few days..
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- ObMotss - after learning the word "chthonian" (from what source, I am
- ashamed to admit), I did my damndest to use it in an English paper.
- And I finally got the chance, in 10th grade, writing some silly
- exposition. My teacher never even remarked on it, just let it go right
- by. ARGH! Anyway, he was 45, never married, ...
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