Onegin again

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> hear, hear!
>
> The phrase "ad hominem argument" seems apt in this particular exchange.


No, it doesn't.  "homo-" in "homosexual" is from Greek "homo-" (with an 
omega in the first syllable) "same" (cf. also Common Slavic *sam- plus all 
its derivatives (most people on this list could probably come up with 
hundreds, from any Slavic language), and not from Latin "homo" - "man" 
(actually "human"; ultimately cognate with Common Slavic *zem- "earth", cf. 
Lithuanian zmuo/zeme)    In English, forms derived from Latin homo should be 
pronounced with a short vowel in the initial syllable, and  those from Greek 
homo- with a long one.  (This distinction has been lost in most Slavic 
languages, even those which preserve any sort of length).

Robert Orr

> David Powelstock wrote:
>> Well, thank Venus we have Webster's Dictionary. Now we can discard
>> all that messy and contentious sexuality scholarship, with all its
>> inconvenient distinctions and differing viewpoints. And I wonder
>> which is more reductive of sexual identities, to distinguish among
>> various cultural, behavioral and psychological paradigms, or to
>> conflate every set of synonyms and near synonyms on the basis of a
>> dictionary designed for general use. To then cast this conflation in
>> terms of political correctness, attacking those who don't buy into
>> this facile maneuver as "homophobic, exclusionary aggressors" is a
>> self-serving and despicable perversion of liberalism. If any term
>> currently in play now seems more capacious than it did yesterday, it
>> is "glupets."
>>
>> David
>>
>> David Powelstock Asst. Prof. of Russian & East European Literatures 
>> Chair, Program in Russian & East European Studies Brandeis University
>>  GREA, MS 024 Waltham, MA  02454-9110 781.736.3347 (Office)
>>
>>
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