[lit-ideas] Re: Quasiness
- From: Julie Krueger <juliereneb@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 11 Mar 2009 05:34:16 -0500
I have to go with "quasi-semi". Not only does it roll off the tongue
nicely, but the potential metaphysical implications are lovelywonderful.
I still want to know what quasi money is and what it looks like and if I
have any and if so if I can use it like real money.
Julie Krueger
On Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 4:41 AM, <Jlsperanza@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> In a message dated 3/11/2009 5:30:18 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time,
> juliereneb@xxxxxxxxx writes:
> I have marveled at the odd and crazy money lately -- the trillion dollar
> notes, the way the economists talk about money we never had as though it
> were
> real and missing, etc. Well, here's a new one (for me, at least) -- I
> was
> looking up a country on the CIA Factbook page -- you know, where they give
> all
> sorts of stats re. the country -- economy, history, mortality rates,
> literacy,
> etc. In the economics section I discovered this odd couplet --
>
> Stock of money:
> $24.2 billion (31 December 2007)
> Stock of quasi money:
> $117.8 billion (31 December 2007)
>
> Someone please explain to me ... what is "quasi-money"??!?!!
>
> Julie Krueger
> mystified & wondering what else "quasi" is out there that I don't know
> about....
>
>
> ----
> Well, there's
>
> quasi-crime:
>
> 1996 Advocate (Baton Rouge, Louisiana) (Nexis) 28 Aug. 1C, Sometimes
> domestic violence is treated as if it's a quasi-crime, but not a crime.
>
> quasi-death:
>
> 1676 R. DIXON Nature Two Test. 30 The reason why God confirmed his
> Testament..is, because this was an act of his *Quasi-dying.
>
> quasi-existence
>
> quasi-war
>
> 2006 San Francisco Chron. (Nexis) 30 Apr. E2 Our entertainments and
> sports
> are quasi-wars with winners and losers. ‘Competition’ is just a more
> palatable synonym for ‘war’.
>
> 2005 Denver Post (Nexis) 27 Mar. E5, I believe I would want to let her go
> rather than live in an awful quasi-existence.
>
> quasi-Fascist:
>
> 1996 A. CALDER in H. Ritchie New Sc. Writing 232 Joyce is so
> anti-people-who-are-anti-English that she must be in line for death threats
> from the
> mercifully few nutters on the SNP's quasi-Fascist fringe.
>
>
> my favourite has to go to:
>
> quasi-ossianic adj. rare
>
> 1868 Spectator 22 Aug. 98/1 When the theme is pursued in a quasi-Ossianic
> dialect.., it excites a feeling very hard to be distinguished from
> loathing.
> 1956 W. H. AUDEN in Listener 26 Jan. 137/1 The Paid Announcer..with his
> quasi-ossianic prose Cuts in upon the lovers, halts the band, To name a
> sponsor or
> to praise a brand.
>
> quasi-semi
>
> quasi-semi n. Brit. either of a pair of semi-detached houses joined only by
> a common wall in their garages; (also) the end house of a terrace.
>
> [1946 J. SUMMERSON Georgian London xx. 264 Quasi-semi-detached houses.]
> 1974
> P. WRIGHT Lang. Brit. Industry xvii. 162 *Quasi-semis, joined by their
> garages, certainly act as semis, though their Latin quasi sounds so foreign
> to
> English speech. 1979 W. Lancs. Evening Gaz. 23 Feb. 17 (advt.) Quasi semi
> conveniently situated to all schools.
>
> There's also Quasimodo (< quasi modo (in the phrase quasi modo geniti
> infantes ‘as if new-born babes’ (1 Peter 2:2 (Vetus Latina));
>
> Cheers,
>
> JL
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