Subject: Re: greconym for boundary specialist?
Date: Jan 14, 2002 @ 18:40
Author: bjbutlerus ("bjbutlerus" <bjbutler@...>)
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Whether you mix withlacoochi with choctawhatchee
Or apalachicola with houstatonic
It will end up piscataqua

BJB


> gainesville fl
>
> ray & peter
> you hit upon several fascinating logological questions here which i
will
> enjoy with you some more as soon as i can do the necessary research
> that is unless someone beats me to the classical dictionaries etc
>
> but for now we find ourselves on a timed computer in this laidback
> university town after intuitively beelining here from destin for
purposes of
> bagging another point of weed
> which is always a fantastic challenge in unfamiliar territory
> & always quite different & interesting in the event
> & in short we scored another class a
>
> also this momentarily higher priority has preempted the very
interesting
> probe we were also making of the time zone line in gulf county with
you
> peter
> but i am often in that neighborhood to glut on the seafood there
anyway so i
> am sure to resume that search sooner than later
> especially as it strikes me as a bold new form of sawanabori
> this tracing not of a river or boundary etc but of an invisible
artifact
> however silly
> with the apalachicola river itself even appearing to agree by
picking up &
> marking the time zone change itself upstream of gulf county
>
> also en route we visited a real place actually called fluffy landing
> & wouldnt have gone out of our way for it but it is on a real bay
called
> jolly bay
> but all that is along a previous river not the apalachicola
> called the choctawhatchee
>
> chocta whatchee you may ask
> no not whatchee
> choctaw hatchee
> but it still sort of goes nicely with withlacoochie
>
> i think the apalachicola goes better with the housatonic
>
> anyway we do seem to have run out of real tripoints to try
> for the moment at least
> so let me just add while in this university town
> with regard to trying to come up with greek &or latin names for
things that
> this pursuit is great fun especially where anachronisms enter in
> as they almost always do
> & as will certainly be the case for a specialist in modern
boundaries
> since the ancient words for boundaries stand for different ideas
than modern
> boundaries
>
> m
>
> >From: "ps1966nl" <smaardijk@y...>
> >Reply-To: BoundaryPoint@y...
> >To: BoundaryPoint@y...
> >Subject: [BoundaryPoint] Re: greconym for boundary specialist?
> >Date: Sun, 13 Jan 2002 14:05:33 -0000
> >
> >Vexillology, not vexillogy. This last word is a result of haplology,
> >which should logically be called haplogy, but that is "haphazard
> >logic", I believe...
> >Peter S.
> >
> >--- In BoundaryPoint@y..., "Ray Milefsky" <mrrayj@p...> wrote:
> > > Thanks for jogging my memory on vexillogist. Is anyone in our
vast
> >audience
> > > aware of a similar greconym for "boundary specialist"? Would
look
> >great on
> > > my name plate.
> > >
> > > Ray
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: acroorca2002 [mailto:orc@o...]
> > > Sent: Saturday, January 12, 2002 12:48 PM
> > > To: BoundaryPoint@y...
> > > Subject: [BoundaryPoint] Re: Independence declared by villages
> >along the
> > > Kazakh-Uzbek border. (long)
> > >
> > >
> > > destin fl
> > >
> > > thanx christian for this fascinating report
> > > & a belated but sincere wave of welcome to you our only known
> > > resident vexillologist
> >
>
>
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