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- Subject: Re: NeoLogisms
- Message-ID: <1992Dec30.090230.13307@bsu-ucs>
- Date: 30 Dec 92 14:02:30 GMT
- References: <1992Dec28.015710.17945@wetware.com>
- Organization: Ball State University, Muncie, In - Univ. Computing Svc's
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- In article <1992Dec28.015710.17945@wetware.com>, drieux@wetware.com (drieux, just drieux) writes:
- > 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.
- >
- >
- > 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.
- >
- >
- > --
- > Modern Day Problems:
- >
- > This is Not a .sigfile addendum to the Post.
- > You are just reading beyond the edge.
- what is: proto_neo_new_age_pop_psychology?
- please?
-