destinator redux; destinatee indux

[Jonathan Lighter]

Poring boring. Reading misleading. Po-mo slo-mo. Working irking.

  Snoozing amusing.

  JL
Charles Doyle <cdoyle at UGA.EDU> wrote:
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May we assume, Jonathan, that you're reading that book as a act of Lenten penance? Or, you could just read the foreign inscriptions on a cereal box--poring after pouring.

--Charlie
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>Date: Mon, 26 Feb 2007 15:28:39 -0800
>From: Jonathan Lighter
>Subject: destinator redux; destinatee indux
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>OED has "destinator" from 1579 but marks it "rare." Well, let's hope so; but Dr. Haidu uses it a lot:
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> 1993 Peter Haidu _The Subject of Violence_ (Bloomington: I.U.P.) 23: His appropriate performance of a culturally required ritual...allows for his transformation from a successful narrative subject into the destinatee of the final sanction from the religious destinator.
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> That means, "Through this requisite proof of piety, Roland is transformed and by grace is raised to Heaven."
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> The author doesn't use "destinatee" quite as much. Not in OED.
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> JL

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