Subject: Re: greconym for boundary specialist?
Date: Jan 14, 2002 @ 21:14
Author: acroorca2002 ("acroorca2002" <orc@...>)
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--- In BoundaryPoint@y..., "bjbutlerus" <bjbutler@b...> wrote:
> Whether you mix withlacoochi with choctawhatchee
> Or apalachicola with houstatonic
> It will end up piscataqua
>
> BJB

yes it certainly will
& especially if some grecolatin cool cat drinks it
no ordinary sour mixologist limologist here
m

>
>
> > 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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