The city of "Limone" in northern Italy (
http://www.limone.com/) is named
not for the fruit ("limoni") but for being near the limit or boundary...
of something... Even though they grow lemons there...
On Thu, 21 Mar 2002, acroorca2002 wrote:
> well that is fine but even in fractured french limologie is still a
> dog latin haplology for what would have had to produce either
> limitologie or liminologie in properly bastardized grecolatin french
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> this is because there never was nor is nor can there ever be any
> properly latin combining form in lim or limo alone
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> lim needs the additional syllable found in either limin or limit to
> mean anything at all having to do with boundaries
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> but it is just a question of how mongrelly & barbarian is too much
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> trust me
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> --- In BoundaryPoint@y..., David Mark <dmark@g...> wrote:
> > I definitely did not mean "limNology". (I don't see why limnology,
> the
> > term for lake science, would apply to all interests in political
> > boundaries.)
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> > I am sure that a guy named Yaives Ferland told me about someone in
> Quebec
> > who was a border specialist and used a term like "limologie" to
> describe
> > the topic...
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> > David
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> > On Tue, 15 Jan 2002, granthutchison wrote:
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> > > > > Limologist?
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> > > > > I think that is used for people who study boundaries...
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> > > > > David
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> > > > i also seem to recall having seen this word limologist somewhere
> > >
> > > Are you guys thinking of limnologist? From Greek limne, a lake -
> > > someone who studies sedimentary processes etc in standing water.
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