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- From: sabbott@nmsu.edu (SDA)
- Subject: Re: Literafisms
- Message-ID: <1992Sep10.022334.19252@nmsu.edu>
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- Organization: WHorshipers of Lady LibertY (WHoLLY)
- Date: Thu, 10 Sep 1992 02:23:34 GMT
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- lange@iscnvx.lmsc.lockheed.com (Alex Lange) writes:
- >
- > sabbott@nmsu.edu (SDA) writes:
- > :
- > : ok, here they are. I consider the ones from literature to be true
- > : literafisms (yahoo, quixotic) and the ones myth or folk tales to be
- > : mythofisms.
- >
- > As a poster from France (I believe) pointed out, these might be
- > more properly termed "eponyms."
-
- A literafism is an adjective created in a piece of literature. An
- eponym has a much more general definition. Sort of like the
- difference between describing you as a dullard and describing you as a
- tedious, nitpicky little fuck.
-
- >
- > : Some of these are neither, hermetic is from a real
- > : person, Hermes Trimes____.
- >
- > Hermes Trismegistus was not an historical person but
- > a late manifestation of the god Hermes, identified with
- > the Egyptian deity Thoth. (Source: Webster's New Collegiate,1956.)
-
- yes, my mistake.
-
- >
- > : faustian orphic. vulcanized
- >
- > Duplicate ^^^^^^^^^^
- >
- > : gargantuan babbitry
- > ^^^^^^^^^^
- > Duplicate
-
- Thanks for pointing this out-I am sure many folks thought they were
- seeing double & were going to have their vision examined.
-
- ITS OK FOLKS, THEY WERE JUST DUPLICATES.
-
- Thanks for the feedback, Mr Lange. Please continue cranking out
- those insightful, witty posts.
-
- --
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- "Life is like a big C program with no documentation" - Ted Slater
-
- \\\\\sean/////
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