[Ads-l] Accretion

[victor steinbok]

Never mind... my mistake. I misread it.

On Tue, Apr 25, 2017, 8:08 PM victor steinbok <aardvark66 at gmail.com> wrote:

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> But "empathetic" misses the point - the use here is identical to
> "emphatic", not "empathic". Perhaps the word is a confused blend of the two
> but I suspect other reasons.
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> VS-)
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> On Tue, Apr 25, 2017, 11:18 AM Ben Zimmer <bgzimmer at gmail.com> wrote:
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> > I don't know about "emphathetically," but "empathetic(ally)" is nothing
> > new. OED dates "empathic" to 1909, with the variant "empathetic"
> > (analogized on the model of "apathetic" and "sympathetic") showing up in
> > 1912 in the psychological literature.
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> > "Empathetic" may have gained ground because "empathic" is often
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> > with the science-fiction use of "empath."
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> > http://www.jessesword.com/sf/view/965
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> > We discussed this back in '08:
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> http://listserv.linguistlist.org/pipermail/ads-l/2008-November/085937.html
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> > See further discussion here:
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> > http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=3D3670
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> > On Tue, Apr 25, 2017 at 10:20 AM, victor steinbok <aardvark66 at gmail.com>
> > wrote:
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> > > There are several words that seem to accumulate extra syllables on
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> > > basis. "Emphathetically" is a new one for me.
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> > > "The Orioles, on the other hand, were a model of comportment in the
> > > aftermath of Machado=E2=80=99s slide -- starting with Machado himself,
> > wh=
> > o
> > > immediately reached out to Pedroia empathetically, both on the field
> and
> > > with a text message."
> > >
> > > Olney: Red Sox deserve all the blame for Machado incident
> > > http://es.pn/2pbAOZE
> > > via @ESPN App http://es.pn/app
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