[Ads-l] sapiosexual

[Jonathan Lighter]

In 1932 quot that shd be "Homo Sapiens."

Nor does OED include the well-known faux singular "homo sapien" (human
being).

JL

On Sat, Sep 21, 2019 at 2:10 PM Jonathan Lighter <wuxxmupp2000 at gmail.com>
wrote:

> 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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