[Ads-l] sapiosexual

[Jonathan Lighter]

1932 _Knoxville [Tenn.] News-Sentinel_ (Sept. 11) 4:  Izzy Inchcape says
the school books should be revised this year to change the name "Homo
Sapien" to "Homo Sap."

1945 _Wilmington [N.C.]  Morning Star_ (Aug. 27) 4:  Homo Sap said that of
course God could not bless America while Americans were out to get all they
could while the getting was good.

Not in OED.

JL



On Sat, Sep 21, 2019 at 1:53 PM Mark Mandel <markamandel at gmail.com> wrote:

> When I'm feeling cynical I call our species just plain "Homo sap".
>
> MAM
>
> On Sat, Sep 21, 2019, 12:32 PM Jonathan Lighter <wuxxmupp2000 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> > At first I thought it meant some one who prefers sex with Homo sapiens.
> >
> > JL
> >
> > On Sat, Sep 21, 2019 at 12:28 PM Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at yale.edu>
> > wrote:
> >
> > > Not to be confused (or is it?) with “saepiosexual”, from “saepius”,
> ‘more
> > > often’
> > >
> > > > On Sep 21, 2019, at 8:30 AM, Jonathan Lighter <
> wuxxmupp2000 at GMAIL.COM>
> > > wrote:
> > > >
> > > > https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/sapiosexual
> > > >
> > > > JL
> > > >
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