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 ------------------------------------------------------------------ To change your Lit-Ideas settings (subscribe/unsub, vacation on/off, digest on/off), visit www.andreas.com/faq-lit-ideas.html
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