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<br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">From: Ingmar Roerdinkholder <<a href="mailto:ingmar.roerdinkholder@WORLDONLINE.NL">ingmar.roerdinkholder@WORLDONLINE.NL
</a>> </span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Subject: LL-L "Morphology" 2007.11.16 (04) [E]</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
<br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Sandy Fleming wrote:</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
<span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Then it would have to be made up from Greek roots, Ron, "cutification"</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
won't do!</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">...</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
<span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Well, the Reinster said "cutesification", with an S. I'd say this had a</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
reason, because it was about the S as a special suffix here. Am I right?</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">So, I think "cutesifaction suffix" is a perfectly fit term for this
</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">special affectionate S!</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
<span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Ingmar</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
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ingmar.roerdinkholder@WORLDONLINE.NL</a>> </span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Subject: LL-L "Morphology" 2007.11.16 (04) [E]</span>
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<br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">typo, I mean cutesification, not cutesifaction of course!</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
<br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">> Sandy Fleming wrote:</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
></span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">> Then it would have to be made up from Greek roots, Ron, "cutification"</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
<span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">> won't do!</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">> ...</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
<span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">></span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">> Well, the Reinster said "cutesification", with an S. I'd say this had a
</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">> reason, because it was about the S as a special suffix here. Am I right?</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
<span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">> So, I think "cutesifaction suffix" is a perfectly fit term for this</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
> special affectionate S!</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">></span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
> Ingmar</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
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<font style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" size="2">From: R. F. Hahn <<a href="mailto:sassisch@yahoo.com" target="_blank">sassisch@yahoo.com</a>><br>Subject: Morphology<br><br>See, folks? <u>Some</u>one got it.
<br><br>You give people cutesifaction by cutesifying names, just as by satisfying people (by means of satisfication, of course ;-) ) you give them satisfaction. So there!<br><br>Sandy and I wrote:<br><br></font><div style="margin-left: 80px; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">
Then it would have to be made up from Greek roots, Ron, "cutification"<br>
won't do!<br></div><div style="margin-left: 40px; color: rgb(0, 0, 153); font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><br>Right you are. Let's see ... something along the lines of "onomatopoeia" ...
<br><br>Noun: metharmchariterpnia or metharmchariterpnosis
<br>Verb: metharmchariterpnotize<br></div><ul style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; margin-left: 40px; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"><li>μεθαρμ- (<i>metharm-</i>): change (into), make a change</li><li>χαριτέρπν- (<i>
charitérpn</i>-): delightful, charming, enchanting</li></ul><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">At second thought, "onomatopoeia" is really an anomaly, and the ones Sandy forced me to create sound like diseases or last-ditch treatments mental health specialists subject folks to, don't they? Linguistic terms are usually Latin-derived while most health-care terms are Greek-derived. So, how about the following Latin-derived proposals?
</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Noun: blandification</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
<span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Verb: blandify</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><ul style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><li><i>bland-</i> ><br></li><li><i>blandire
</i> 'to flatter', 'to caress', 'to coax'</li><li><i>blanditia</i> 'flattery', 'allurement', 'attraction', 'charm'</li></ul><font style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" size="2">
Noun: delenition<br>Verb: deleniate<br></font><ul style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><li><i>delen-</i> ></li><li><i>delenire </i>'to soften down', 'to soothe', 'to charm'</li><li><i>
delenimentum</i> 'that which softens, soothes or charms'<br></li></ul><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Noun: delicification</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
Verb: delicify</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><ul style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><li><i>delic-</i>* ></li><li><i>deliciae</i> 'allurements', 'attraction', 'charms', delights', 'fancies'
</li><li><i>delicia</i>, <i>delicius </i>'darling', 'sweetheart'</li></ul><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">* This is found in words like "delicate" and "delicious", also to the archaic words "delice" (= "delight"), "delicies" ("delights", 'joys"), "delicities" ("delights", 'joys") and "to deliciate" ("to delight", "to enjoy oneself"). "Delight" looks like it too, but the
<i>OED</i> claims it comes from a misspelled rendition of Middle English <i>delit</i> from Old French <i>delit</i>, from Latin <i>deliter</i>. But isn't that related also?<br><br>Reinhard/Ron</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
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