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- From: ai888@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Thomas Flesher)
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- Subject: Re: What Gay Sex (was Re: How Many Homosexuals?)
- Date: 17 Nov 1992 02:56:13 GMT
- Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio (USA)
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- In a previous article, nelson@reed.edu (Nelson Minar) says:
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- Hot Young Star>> au.toch.tho.nous \o.-'ta:k-th*-n*s\ \-ne-\ aj : INDIGENOUS, NATIVE
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- Nelson> damn, and here I'd parsed "autochthonous" as
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- Nelson> auto-chthonous
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- Correctly.
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- Nelson> which any student of obscure words will recognize as being a bizarre
- Nelson> way to say "self-destructive". Maybe I should give my queer wordsmith
- Nelson> card a rest for a few days.
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- Maybe. Chthon (long o) is Greek for "earth, ground"; what conjectured
- etymology led you to "destructive"?
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- Nelson> ObMotss - after learning the word "chthonian" (from what source, I am
- Nelson> ashamed to admit), I did my damndest to use it in an English paper.
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- Do you mean that "chthonian" was once code for "gay", as "uranian" was?
- I'd never heard that. Odd thing if it's true: gays held both earth and heaven
- ("uranian" is from Greek "ouranos", meaning "sky, heaven"); so what room
- was left for straights?
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- Tom Flesher (internet: ai888@cleveland.freenet.edu)
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- >>> Bigotry is merely cowardice in the face of complexity. <<<
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