Onegin again

[Douglas Greenfield]

homonymically, that is

colkitto wrote:
>> 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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