Re: LOTR credit line

From:    Andreas Johansson <andjo@...>
> Quoting Costentin Cornomorus <elemtilas@...>:
> > >Just doesn't say it
> > > aloud
> > > for fear of seeming too "heathen" and
> > > "Asia-centric"
> >
> > Well, I'm not sure how much worse/more strongly
> > put his Asiacentrism can be.
>
> I'm a native speaker of neither Latin nor English, but I'd
> expected "asiocentric". Am I wrong, and, if yes, why?
For me, Padraic's "Asiacentrism" is grammatically a compound word,
which I would probably spell "Asia-centrism". In contrast, "Asiocentrism"
(which in the standard needs capitalization) is formed from the bound
morph _Asi-_ 'Asia'. There are thus two morphological processes that
are assigned to the same basic lexical meaning.

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