[lit-ideas] Uragnosia

  • From: palma <palma@xxxxxxxx>
  • To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Sat, 29 Jan 2011 12:16:56 -0500 (EST)

On Sat, 29 Jan 2011, Jlsperanza@xxxxxxx wrote:

From today's "Word", ed. M.  Quinion:

"LOST SENSES  The Feedback column in New Scientist has  introduced me
to a newly coined word: URAGNOSIA. It was created by Andrew  Ross,
who was responding to a query by another reader, Alastair Beaven.
The latter wanted a term for a person who knows a word only in a
novel  sense and not its original. The example he gave was of an
interpreter in  Afghanistan who knew about viruses in computers, but
not about biological  viruses. Andrew Ross generated his word from
"ur-", origin, plus Greek  "agnosia", ignorance (from "gnosis", as I
noted in connection with  "prognosticate", above). So "uragnosia"
means ignorance of  origin."

--- Similarly, Geary reports, some uses of 'bitch' ('bitchy' --  "He is a
bitchy columnist").
Speranza

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