On 2006.06.30 12:52:24, you,
the extraordinary John Randall, opined:
>
> Boyko Bantchev wrote:
> > `Nil' is Latin, so niladic is
> > ill-formed, Latin-Greek.
>
> ...yet we get on fine with 'television'.
>
> While we're being picky, what about Fowler's rule 5, "Prefer the Saxon
> word to the Romance"?
Poul Anderson took this farther than you want to go, in
"Uncleftish Beholding". See:
http://www.grijalvo.com/Citas/Peculiar_English.htm
(maybe a dyadic verb would be a "twainish doword"; to take topic-drift
farther than you want to go :-)
--
Nollaig MacKenzie
http://www.amhuinnsuidhe.net
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