Hot for words

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  3. Orleander OH JOY!!!! Valued Senior Member

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    what's an etyophile? :shrug:
     
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  5. madanthonywayne Morning in America Registered Senior Member

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    Nice. And I learned something too!
     
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  7. Orleander OH JOY!!!! Valued Senior Member

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    so etyophiles are tie collectors?
     
  8. Idle Mind What the hell, man? Valued Senior Member

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    What tie?
     
  9. Orleander OH JOY!!!! Valued Senior Member

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    LMAO!! :roflmao:
     
  10. Idle Mind What the hell, man? Valued Senior Member

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    Etyophile appears to be a word Roman has made up to describe people who enjoy learning the origins of various words -- the study of etymology, and -phile as a suffix denotes affinity. At least, I couldn't find any other instances of the word in a quick search.
     
  11. Fraggle Rocker Staff Member

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    Bad coinage, splitting in half the Greek noun etymon, "the essential meaning of a word," formed from the adjective etymos, "true." It should be etymophile.

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    "Hot for Words" has been here before. We debated the nationality of her accent at some length, with no success. I'm convinced that A) it's fake, but B) she's nonetheless not an anglophone. She's overlaying a phony accent on top of her native accent, which makes it impossible to figure out. I'd guess a mixture of French and a Slavic language.

    Edit: Oh wait. Since our last go-round HotForWords has acquired a Wikipedia article. Her name is Marina Orlova and she is a genuine Russian linguist, with a specialty in etymology. But I stand by my original hypothesis. No way that's a straight-up Russian accent. She's using her linguistic knowledge to spice it up with foreign phonemes.
     
  12. Roman Banned Banned

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    That is correct. I made it up. Apparently, I was pretty close.
    Also, she was on the O'Reilly Factor. That guy is hilariously obnoxious. It's definitely a Russian accent, but I agree, she plays it up. Sometimes I find myself qeueing (how many vowels does that require?) up a bunch of em and just listening as I do stuff on the computer. Does that make me gay?
     
  13. cosmictraveler Be kind to yourself always. Valued Senior Member

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    Nope , it only shows everyone how really smart you are and how incorrigible too.
     
  14. Fraggle Rocker Staff Member

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    You got the right number, but the wrong vowels.

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    It's QUEUING. Remember, in English every Q has to be followed by a U, unless it's a word of pretty exotic origin.
     
  15. Roman Banned Banned

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    Oh yeah. How could I forget. That's like the only consistent rule in English.
    /slaps head
     
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  16. John Connellan Valued Senior Member

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    Along with "i before e except after c"

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  17. Roman Banned Banned

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    I thick science should be a sufficient counter-example to that rule

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    And neighbor.
     
  18. John Connellan Valued Senior Member

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    yes, i should have given the unabridged version of that rule:

    Although I'm sure you're gonna come up with some excetions to this rule too eh?

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  19. Fraggle Rocker Staff Member

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    My heirs are going to wonder when they're going to get theirs. What's your height? Me neither. That's just weird.
     
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  20. oldsweat Registered Member

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    Competence in English spelling is a function of visual memory. We can spell well only if we can remember what the word looks like when it correctly spelled. Visual memory is independent of intellectual reasoning ability or of the ability to learn a set of rules because there are no consistent rules for English orthography whatever some teachers might tell you.
     
  21. madanthonywayne Morning in America Registered Senior Member

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    Exactly. I remember learning the "i before e except after c" rule in grade school and then finding a million exceptions and wondering what the hell is the point of a "rule" with so many exceptions. Might as well throw that so called "rule" out the damned window.
     

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