I personally don’t find disembark ugly.......antonym of embark, works for
me. Maybe this 'bark' is a variant of 'barque' being a boat/ship that one
gets on?

As for deplane, implies an antonym of plane (de- prefix being usually
negative), but to me plane is a a noun (aircraft, carpentry tool, or a
surface in geometry) or a verb in carpentry. So they had to invent emplane
as opposite of deplane.....

Anybody come across people who pronounce   ask     as    axe   ?


Do some digging on this and see if you get a surprise...

jp

-----Original Message-----
From: Tracy Pierce [mailto:[log in to unmask]] 
Sent: Saturday, 8 July 2006 2:35 AM
To: john pitman
Subject: RE: [HP3000-L] OT: "Pedantic" Sighting

Chances are pretty good you know less than half of "the words", and that's
ok, nobody's accusing you of sleeping in class unless you don't understand
the difference between its and it's.  I suggest buying yourself a good
dictionary, and don't be afraid to open it.  Beware of the word "Webster's",
common to nearly every dictionary out there.  Get Merriam-Webster; I
recommend their "Collegiate" version.

why not gripe than I made up "pedance"?

why not flog "google", recently 'officially' added to the language as a
verb?  

disembark is really ugly, but alas, still a word.  why not just debark?
debark is only moderately worse than debite, but roughly equivalent, as
un-leave is about as possible as un-bite.

the wacky world of words.  enjoy!

> -----Original Message-----
> From: john pitman [mailto:[log in to unmask]] 
> Sent: Thursday, July 06, 2006 10:39 PM
> To: Tracy Pierce
> Subject: RE: [HP3000-L] OT: "Pedantic" Sighting
> 
> Damn, I must have been out of class when that appeared as a 
> verb. In 63
> years I have NEVER seen it before. Probably came along at the 
> same lesson as
> deplane instead of disembark or get off, exit as an English 
> verb, etc etc.
> 
> My main objection is that its usage sounds clumsy (IMHO), or 
> its wrongly
> used.
> 
> Jp
> Comedians Motto - I take the Piss, Therefore I am.
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: HP-3000 Systems Discussion 
> [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf
> Of Tracy Pierce
> Sent: Friday, 7 July 2006 11:09 AM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: [HP3000-L] OT: "Pedantic" Sighting
> 
> jeez, sounds like you NEED a little pedance.  intuition is a 
> noun made of a
> verb by adding ion, meaning "the state or act of".
> 
>  http://www.m-w.com/dictionary/intuit
> 
> Main Entry: in·tu·it 
> Pronunciation: in-'tü-&t, -'tyü-
> Function: transitive verb
> : to know, sense, or understand by intuition 
> - in·tu·it·able  /-&-t&-b&l/ adjective 
> 
>  
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: HP-3000 Systems Discussion 
> > [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of john pitman
> > Sent: Thursday, July 06, 2006 3:01 PM
> > To: [log in to unmask]
> > Subject: Re: OT: "Pedantic" Sighting
> > 
> > Very COMMON perception thing IMHO. Ever noticed more of a car 
> > make/model
> > once you buy or decide to look seriously at buying one?
> > 
> > I find the worst thing is when some cretin "invents" a new 
> > word and it seems
> > to be picked up by everybody and their dog. Especially 
> > irritating when they
> > convert word types- most will know about 'intuition' - it's a 
> > noun , a name
> > for a sense or method of arriving at a conclusion. Somebody 
> > is now making it
> > into a verb, as in 'I intuited...'    arrrhhhhhggggggg!!!! 
> > Whats wrong with
> > divined, guessed, suspected etc?
> > 
> > jp
> > 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: HP-3000 Systems Discussion 
> > [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf
> > Of Johnson, Tracy
> > Sent: Friday, 7 July 2006 3:27 AM
> > To: [log in to unmask]
> > Subject: [HP3000-L] OT: "Pedantic" Sighting
> > 
> > Ever wonder when you hear a rarely used word, all of a sudden 
> > you see it
> > more often?
> >  
> > Now that Larry Barnes had to look up "pedant", I find it 
> > cropping up all
> > over the place.
> >  
> > The latest is a Eugene's "Volokh Conspiracy."  See:
> >  
> > http://volokh.com/archives/archive_2006_07_02-2006_07_08.shtml
> > #115220624
> > 7
> >  
> > 
> > Tracy Johnson
> > Measurement Specialties, Inc.
> > 
> > BT
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > NNNN
> > 
> > 
> >  
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