Weekly Vocab #1.1.3 (repost #1)

Last posted: April 12th, 2002

> From: Aidan Grey <grey@...>
>
> Brought to you by D (for doctor) and possessive pronouns.
>
> Vocab:
>
>    1. doctor / healer
>    2. medicine
>    3. ear
>    4. eye
>    5. friend
>    6. itch and/or scratch
>    7. hurt / pain (the verb ... or not)
>    8. diagnosis
>    9. cure / heal
>    10. ill
>
>   Context:
>
>    1. She is my doctor.
>    2. _That_ is _my_ medicine, and _this_ is yours.
>    3. She looked in their ears.
>    4. She looked in (or tested, or..) her (someone else's) eye.
>    5. Our friends are ill.
>    6. His scratch (the one on him) is worse than his scratch (the one he
> caused on someone else unspecified).
>    7. Do y'all's heads hurt? / Do you guys have headaches?
>    8. His diagnosis (that he gave) is that she will get better.
>    9. His diagnosis (for the disease he has) has a cure.
>    9a. She will cure my friends.
>    10. I am not ill anymore.
>
>    Note:
>
>    considerable room for playing around with semantics here. I've
> highlighted issues of inalienable or alienable possession, so that those
> who have such concepts in their langs can show it off. Also, 9a is an
> alternate, depending on which semantic range you go for with cure.
>
>    Have fun! I hope to put Taalennin up this time, but don't hold your
> breath (coming up on the end of the term - major studying...)
>
>    Aidan
Bonus Vocab (automatically from WordNet):

  - scrupulousness, n.
    conformity to high standards of ethics or excellence

  - nutate, v.
    rock, sway, or nod; usually involuntarily

Fiant verba!

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