Subject: Re: wording
Date: Jul 16, 2004 @ 15:47
Author: aletheiak ("aletheiak" <aletheiak@...>)
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> Peers,i feel great about it
>
> I would appreciate if our english-speaking friends
> could comment on the following:
>
> We frequently use the word pene-exclave in the
> approximate meaning of "almost exclave". If I am not
> mistaken the word was introduced either by Robinson in
> the 50s or Catudal in the 70s, unless, of course, the
> word was already in common use prior to that.
>
> I think the word is a little awkward, and since there
> already seems to be other examples of words formed
> with the (latin?) prefix "pen" (like peninsula,
> penultimate), wouldn't "penexclave" do nicely?
>
> How do y'all feel about "penexclave"?
>
> M