[rollei_list] "-scape'

  • From: Don Williams <3237daw@xxxxxxx>
  • To: rollei_list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Mon, 14 May 2018 14:20:01 -0500

My apologies to Carlos and John-

I was sort of making a little joke about the word "urbanscape" and included a little smiley face in my original posting.

I tried to find some definitions for the word fragment "scape" and found many, depending on the dictionary that came up.

Here is the most appropriate one for our purposes:

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<https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=12&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0ahUKEwiTpeX58YXbAhWMZd8KHRXrDGkQFgihATAL&url=https%3A%2F%2Fdictionary.cambridge.org%2Fus%2Fdictionary%2Fenglish%2Fscape&usg=AOvVaw0710dbfMiqplKvd-eEDv-H>-scape Definition in the Cambridge English Dictionary

https://dictionary.cambridge.org/us/dictionary/english/scape
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scape meaning: used to form nouns referring to a wide view of a place, often one represented in a picture:

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So landscape, seascape, urbanscape, cityscape, and many other variations are perfectly fine for our purposes.

Now, when I was an active diver with my Rolleimarin IV and Rollei 3.5F, I was sometimes able to take large scenes underwater, depending, of course, on the distance of visibility. No idea what "scape" would apply to such pictures. (Maybe wetscape?) I once visited a photographer at The National Geographic who had published some nice scenic under water pictures with a camera on a tripod. We didn't discuss what "scape" would apply to those pictures.

So, once more, apologies to all.

One more "scape comes to mind. "e-scape". I have never seen one nor photographed one, but it is a concern of our local jail.

Regards,

DAW~

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