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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Peter Kirk said:<BR><BR>> One good reason why
this does not exist is that it is a mixture of Latin <BR>> and Greek roots.
Such mixtures are usually avoided in English, although <BR>> there are
exceptions like "television".<BR>> <BR>> I would think that a prerequisite
for building good new words from Latin <BR>> and Greek roots is a reasonable
knowledge of Latin and Greek. That may <BR>> sound elitist, but there are
enough people still who do have that <BR>> knowledge that words which don't
follow the proper rules of these <BR>> languages are unlikely to be widely
accepted.<BR><BR>I don't think so. If you go to a website like<BR><A
href="http://www.owlnet.rice.edu/~ling215/NewWords/">http://www.owlnet.rice.edu/~ling215/NewWords/</A>
<BR>which is a study on how new words are formed in English it says:<BR>"The
list below includes many different structural word formation types, including
novel derivations, clippings, back formations, and compounding processes of
various sorts. The words also exemplify a wide range of semantic/pragmatic
phenomena such as metaphor, metonymy, euphemism, and eponymy."<BR></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I can't imagine that the coiners of such new
words as "Globoboss" "Krunk" "Losingest" "Meanderthal" referred to their
Greek and Latin etymologies.</FONT><FONT face=Arial size=2><BR><BR>But I
hate it when I get behind a vehicular meanderthal.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>John Roberts</FONT></DIV>
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