Re: confession: roots

In a message dated 5/7/01 9:30:20 PM, alrivera@SOUTHERN.EDU writes:

<< It's the same root, but the wrong meaning.  I needed a verb meaning 'to
_be_

born', meaning 'to come into the world'--which is what the baby does--but 'to

bear' is what the mother does, and doesn't help at all.


['Born' as a verb isn't helpful either, because it hasn't got a useful
passive.] >>

Your idea seems kind of odd...  The idea is that the fetus...gets itself out
of its mother's womb?  "To escape the womb", maybe?

-David

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