Another brilliant observation

[Wilson Gray]

What we have here is a failure to communicate, sadly.

-Wilson

On Mon, Jun 28, 2010 at 9:05 PM, Mark Mandel <thnidu at gmail.com> wrote:
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> That's why I said "stem", not "root". And  we use the -st- before "-ic":
> Gnostic, agnostic.
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> m a m
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> On Sun, Jun 27, 2010 at 10:53 PM, Wilson Gray <hwgray at gmail.com> wrote:
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> > On Sun, Jun 27, 2010 at 11:16 AM, Mark Mandel <thnidu at gmail.com> wrote:
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> > > what happened to the -t- of the stem?
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> > The -t- is part of the ending, cognate with English -(e)d-, not of the
> > stem,
> > gno-, cognate with English _know_.
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> > Unless, of course, Homer nodded.
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> > Youkneverknow.
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> > -Wilson
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All say, "How hard it is that we have to die!"––a strange complaint to
come from the mouths of people who have had to live.
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