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Luke is my very best semantical friend right now, because he found the word that I was searching for a very long time ago, the word I had failed to rediscover...until tonight.
The slippery term that cost me so much sleep?
Autological. I have wanted to use that word so many times since I read about the concept about two years ago in Oxford. But the term had escaped my mind and the Bodleian was no longer available to my perusal. How handy it is to have friends who currently study linguistics/philosophy of language and thus solve all my semantic problems for me.
Posted by funke at 29.12.06 23:44 | TrackBack | Posted to Confessions of a Grammar NaziI was *this* close!
Posted by: Evan Donovan at 2.01.07 14:43You were, you were! I just got lost when I google searched autologous and came up with a dead end. I didn't think to get creative and try different versions of the word...
Posted by: funke at 2.01.07 17:05Word stems - they're what it's all about...
Posted by: Evan Donovan at 2.01.07 20:10