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From: Kevin & Cheryl Caldwell <kevin.caldwell1963 at verizon.net>
Subject: LL-L "Morphology" 2007.11.13 (01) [E]

thought Elizabeth I was affectionately referred to as Bess. The British Long
Land Pattern musket was commonly referred to as Brown Bess (one theory is
that this was derived from the German phrase 'braun buss' meaning 'brown
gun').

And if you think English names get stretched when diminutivized, until they
are nearly unrecognizable, just look at what Russians do.  They even make
diminutives of the dimunitives! Aleksandr>Aleksasha>Sasha>Sashka>Sashen'ka
or Aleksandr>Alekshura> Shura>Shurka>Shuren'ka.

Kevin "Don't you dare call me Kevs" Caldwell
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From: Maria Elsie Zinsser <ezinsser at icon.co.za>
Subject: LL-L "Morphology" 2007.11.14 (03) [E]

Hi Ron,

Why not cutify / cutification / cutificator rather than
cutesify/cutesification/cutesificator?
The longer and more complex a lexical string is, the less it is going to be
used.

Cheerio,
Elsie Zinsser

>The verb "cutesify" has the main stress on the first syllable,
"cutesification" on the fourth, and "cutesificator" on the the second.
Everyone like? Should be sent straight to the *OED* people.

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From: R. F. Hahn <sassisch at yahoo.com>
Subject: Morphology

Kevin, I think you're right about Bessy. It's interesting, too: supposedly
Beth > Beths > Bess > Bessy.

Else, I was just kidding about those terms. Sorry I didn't make that
clearer.

Seriously, though, if there isn't a fancy-shmancy term for "endearing" in
linguistics (and I'm not aware of any), I would suggest something like
"affectative" with subcategories like "diminutive affectative" (or
"affectative diminutive"), "jocular affectative."

Regards,
Reinhard/Ron

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