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- From: drieux@wetware.com (drieux, just drieux)
- Subject: NeoLogisms
- Message-ID: <1992Dec28.015710.17945@wetware.com>
- Sender: news@wetware.com (Usenet News Account)
- Organization: Castle WetWare Philosopher and Sniper
- Date: Mon, 28 Dec 1992 01:57:10 GMT
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- cjp8b@dayhoff.med.Virginia.EDU (Chris Penington) writes:
- ] In article <c*51Hx=7fb@atlantis.psu.edu> R9S@ECL.PSU.EDU (Roberto G Sung) writes:
- ]
- ] >just a quick question: what exactly means
- ] >"serendipity". i've seen this word a few times lately. is it part of
- ] >the neology? thanks
- ]
- ] "Serendipity" refers to happy outcomes that occur by accident.
- ] Webster's New International Dictionary (3rd edition, 1961) says " an
- ] assumed gift for finding valuable or agreeable things not sought for".
- ] The term comes from a Persian tale "The Three Princes of Serendip"
- ] which happy outcomes keep happening by accident. It's NOT a neologism.
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-
- Albeit that Chris's research is CORRECT,
- this does NOT change the fact that 'serendipity'
- as a BuzzPhrase of the Proto_Neo_New_Age_Pop_Psychology
- is not a NeoLogism, encumbant upon it with all the
- horrid implications that it may well be one of the preliminary
- symptoms of a 'multi_phasic_personality_disorder.'
-
- That there are those out there who have been using
- this NeoLogism for varying amounts of time does NOT
- bring the term within the realm of RealEnglish[tm] terms.
-
-
- ciao
- drieux
-
- ObPeeve: Victims of Proto_Neo_New_Age_Pop_Psychology
- who are still in denial about thier problem.
-
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- This is Not a .sigfile addendum to the Post.
- You are just reading beyond the edge.
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