At 10:07 PM 9/17/01, you wrote:
>Forgive me, but - what the hell is "alterity"? I have never heard this word
>and cannot find it in any dictionary.
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>Tom Beck
alterity /al"tErIti, Ql-/ n.
LME. [Early uses f. late L alteritas, later also f. Fr. alterite: see ALTER
v., -ITY.]
_1 An alteration. Only in LME.
2 The state of being other or different, otherness. M17.
c Oxford University Press 1973, 1993, 1996
The New Shorter Oxford English Dictionary on CD-ROM
BTW, did anyone else get that post with formatting codes scattered all
through it? I gave up trying to read it because of all the HTML codes.
-- Ronn! :)
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