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Dec. 7th, 2003 08:45 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
unbibiumWhen television was first introduced, someone was quoted as saying that anything whose name is half Greek and half Latin is trouble.
Do you find that neologisms stay true to their root language these days? I looked at my earlier post, and noticed that "psychozoology" was a word I made up, but "cryptozoology" is a real word, and both are pbviously all-Greek. The "y" "crypto-" and "psycho-" are a dead giveaway.
Do you find that neologisms stay true to their root language these days? I looked at my earlier post, and noticed that "psychozoology" was a word I made up, but "cryptozoology" is a real word, and both are pbviously all-Greek. The "y" "crypto-" and "psycho-" are a dead giveaway.
