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Re: OT: graffitum

From:Eugene Oh <un.doing@...>
Date:Sunday, July 29, 2007, 4:19
2007/7/29, Mark J. Reed <markjreed@...>:
> > That's that rapper guy, right? Grafitty Cent? > > > -- > Mark J. Reed <markjreed@...> >
HAHAHA. That's all with which I can respond! But in all seriousness, I assume then that "graffiti" is an Italian coinage, derived from a Latin borrowing of "graph-" from the Greek and infused with a sense of diminution? Or is the real etymology something else entirely? Eugene