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This makes me happy.
This made my day! I’m a bit of a language geek, and it’s true — mixing Greek and Latin roots is just WRONG! (Unless you’re, like, creating a new language, or something.)
Given that it’s polyamory we’re talking about here, isn’t the term “polyamory,” in its very mixing of Greek and Latin, precisely appropriate? Why should Latin only go with Latin, and Greek with Greek…
Picky, picky, picky. You say toe-mah-toe, I say toe-may-toe. An English major did this, right? As long as people know what you mean, what difference does it make? It seems to me that a lot of words (in every language) have mixed root origins. In any case, love one another, people!
It’s a joke.
Its all Greek to me.
Daniel, once again there is good proof that satire and sarcasm cannot be used on the internet.
Yeah, I know.
All I can say is: Television! Half Greek, half Latin.
And evil. You’ve made your point.
Heh, but tele- is still better than procul-!
True, but “television” just rolls off the tongue….
I don’t have telly, you know. I mean, I have a telly, but it’s only hooked up to the xbox for games and dvds. Got no aerial so can’t watch actual telly. Best decision I ever made!
I haz digital cable. Must have BBC America….
I miss the movie channels, I won’t lie. And the ten-minute freeview of Telvision X at midnight.
The shirt is ok, but I really enjoy the torso it is displayed on.
Damn. Beat me to it.
I’d rather see it on my bedroom floor…. the shirt, that is.
You so naughty.
Do they come for men?
I hope so!
Women usually do, if the man knows what he’s doing.
Dutchhobbit, who are “they”?
When I told my SIL about this shirt he couldn’t figure out why I was a laughing my ass off. ‘Course, he didn’t study linguistics, so he’s normal still.
linguistics ftw!
Except it took me a while to figure out why you call your sister-in-law “he”.
If you’re a teabagger (especially one of those who made posters and marched on DC) you might think the word polyamory is referring to multiple layers of kevlar. ^_^
THAT made my day. :D
I posted this elsewhere:
It is true that it is best for Latin word elements to go with other Latin word elements, and it is best for Greek word elements to go with other Greek elements. But when a certain word element was very often used in one of the languages, while its translation in the other language was not very often used, making the word elements match is not so easy. A perfect example is the Greek adverb tele, “far off.” The Greeks used it as a prefix pretty often. But the Latin translation, procul, was never used as a prefix by the Romans. In cases like television (Greek + Latin), I think mixing is a-okay. Proculvision is just weird. The multiamory is not best for the Latin elements, anyway. Multamory is better according to how Latin word elements normally work (as in multangulus, multanimis, multannus). Perhaps polyeroticism would be better than polyphilia. Even the Romans had Graeco-Latin hybrids: antelogium, Pseudocato, salaputtium, protolapsus, drillopota, monoculus, penteloris, euroaquilo, scenofactorius, septidromus, artigraphus, myobarbum, tractomelitus.
yeahbutt, that doesn’t fit on a t-shirt.
I’ve never been able to reconcile that polyamory is wrong. It seems to be a strongly held intuition that it is, mostly in the West. But as Dawkins said, I think in The Selfish Gene, monogamy is the queer phenomenon. We can love many wines or paintings, why not people?
Actually, let me rephrase that a bit. Why not many people romantically? We can love many people all at once – relatives, friends, children.
Nothing is preventing you to love multiple parters.
I guarantee you that you will see many polyamire relationships arund you, only… these people do not realize that it is polyamory. They probably call it very good friendship.
But if you analyze it, you will notice actual love for that friend even though they do not use that word, they will call it a very dear friend.
Also christians actually are polyamoric. They love their wife and the holy spirit the jezus and their god. This is what I classify as polyamoric.
This is ENGLISH. The language that “follows other languages into dark alleys and shakes them down for loose grammar.” Once it’s generally accepted – it’s right. Even if it’s wrong.
When did it start simply shaking them down? Usually English leaves ‘em broken and beaten in the alleyway, missing a few words….
Sundog: “English] follows other languages into dark alleys….”
And sometimes those dark alleys break the rules of English. Rule: Collective Nouns are Singular. “The team has a good coach” not “The team have a ….”
Yet some Latin lover noted that data is the plural of datum. Even though data almost always refers to a collection of individual “datums”.
It’s the Anguish Languish for sure.
having been forced to take Latin for three miserable years, I still cringe when I hear “stadiums”.
Fffffuu–
I have the same reaction to people using “media” in the singular.
Data was just one robot–of course it’s singular.
I so want that!
If polyamory is wrong, I don’t wanna be right …
♥
Who cares if the word is part Greek and part Latin.
As long as I am happy withh my 2 partners.
did you say ‘long’?
Yes, did I write something wrong in English?
No, i was just engaging in the double entende :)
If English is your second language, enjoy some Wiki-love.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double_entendre
Yes it is my second language. Combined with dyslexia. LOL
I did think that you made fun of the word “long” but was not sure.
Polyamory is sick, sick, sick. But not as sick as Automobile (Auto: Greek, Mobile: Latin, via old French)
Sick? You have no clearly idea what you are talking about!
I totally want that shirt XD
You can find it on Zazzle.
http://www.zazzle.com/polyamory_is_wrong_tshirt-235838933475364492
Well, neologisms like that started in the 19th: sociology for example…
And you could have found it on cafepress since 2005 here:
http://www.cafepress.com/captainwhimsy
Gotta love T-shirt stealers. :)
What a dumb fucking argument. This is a clear example of when a pseudo-intellectual makes an attempt to be humorous. There are plenty of words in the English language that contain a combination of two words that originate from two different languages. This includes bigamy, hexadecimal, liposuction, sociopath, you get the idea.
If I catch anyone wearing that dumb shit I will punch them in the fucking face for being an pseudo-intellectual fuckwit. FUCK now I’m too angry to sleep.
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