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 Post subject: A Curiosity for Your Delight and Amusement
PostPosted: Mon Jul 02, 2012 1:26 pm 
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Race → racial

Space → spatial

I'm sure there's a good explanation for the oddity, but I thought I'd point it out.

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Nano → weirdo

Just thought I'd point that out.

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:love:

I'm afraid there's probably no good explanation for me, though.

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What does space have to do with spatula? I really don't get it.


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Nanohedron wrote:
Space → spatial

So how's your spatial awareness in a palatial palace?

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If I were in one it would be no worse than now. It got near 100F today and I think the cooking has tightened up my braign.

...Now wait just a doggone minute, there: show me an impalatial palace.

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Nanohedron wrote:
If I were in one it would be no worse than now. It got near 100F today and I think the cooking has tightened up my braign.
It's still bacon hear two.


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Remember this big racial spatial (or racial spacial, or racial special) moment?
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Roddenberry arguably played the coward by pandering to viewers who frown on employee fraternisation. By making a captain and lieutenant (boundaries are, after all, boundaries) unwilling erotic space puppets of an evil space meanie, I say it never really counted as an office romance, shocking as the idea of chasing your co-worker around the copier was in the day. But despite their acceptable cries of protest as polite society expected of them, being under coercion and durance vile, the naughty bit was that you could tell they really wanted to be unprofessional anyway. Admit it: we all wanted them to be unprofessional anyway. Not bad.

And the nice thing about that way being paved, is that now that we're all a bit more enlightened, intracorporate love is generally no big deal. :thumbsup:

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For the time though...

In West Virginia, spatial, spacial, and special are all pronounced the same.

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Greece -> Greek
Greece -> Grecian

Is it possibly something as simple as:

Greek/Latin/Germanic

It's English, and therefore random

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chas wrote:
It's English, and therefore random

Yes. So mind your spelling, everyone.

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I do not have a good memory for semi-random patterns, so I have never been good at Ingglish spelling. The only way I can remember the difference between were and where is to remember that where is here plus the w. "Where? Here." I just know it is a way pedantic twits can put people down. "Oh, he should know better that to use discreet when he really meant discrete. Now we can dismiss him as an uneducated dolt." I think the Normans, who started out as Vikings, were so deeply offended when they realized they had been turned into Frenchmen, they invaded Brittan and invented the English just to get back at the French. The more kindly pedantic twits would look at me and say "Oh, it would all make perfectly good sense if you knew the history of English.". That is all well and good but for the fact no one said "Oh, he is an intelligent dyslexic lad who is not good at the rote learning of English spellings. Let's give him a terribly interesting course in the history of English spellings. It will all make sense to him." at any point is my early academics. And the English vowel shift has to be the work of Satan after the Normans had already given us the French's bizarre use of the Latin alphabet.


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Roderick [Rod] Sprague IV wrote:
I think the Normans, who started out as Vikings, were so deeply offended when they realized they had been turned into Frenchmen, they invaded Brittan and invented the English just to get back at the French.

I would argue a similar case.

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Race comes from raza or something similar, space from spatium. E.g. an s-sound versus a t-sound.

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