sounds great to me
with or without the haplogy
zzzzz
m
>From: "Ray Milefsky" <mrrayj@...>
>Reply-To: BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com
>To: <BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com>
>Subject: RE: [BoundaryPoint] Re: greconym for boundary specialist?
>Date: Fri, 18 Jan 2002 22:22:15 -0500
>
>Thanks, folks for the suggestions. I coined a neologism, which I think is
>accurate and all Greek, namely Synorologist. Synoro is a boundary, pillar,
>border. Problem is that the word is not ancient Greek. Sounds great
>though, don't you think?
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: acroorca2002 [mailto:orc@...]
> Sent: Sunday, January 13, 2002 4:39 PM
> To: BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: [BoundaryPoint] Re: greconym for boundary specialist?
>
>
> well i am glad you did beat me to it grant
> for it is good to hear from you
> & of course us punctologists dont mind mixing latin & greek
> & really must do so here since pure greek would give urologist or at
> best ourologist
>
> other latin roots could give liminologist & terminologist
>
> but in all cases the words dont mean quite what we want them to
> so it is hard to choose
>
> m
>
> --- In BoundaryPoint@y..., "granthutchison" <granthutchison@b...>
> wrote:
> > > Is anyone in our vast audience
> > > aware of a similar greconym for "boundary specialist"?
> > You could always make one up - everyone else does. "Vexillology" is
> a
> > mixture of Latin and Greek, which some folk disapprove of. But by
> > analogy you could deploy the Latin "confinium" (a common boundary)
> and
> > call yourself a "confiniologist". Admittedly, this does sound like
> it
> > might be the opposite of "escapologist" ...
> > Grant
> >
> > PS: Any more news on the Belarus/Ukraine exclave?
>
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