Re: Greek plurals
| From: | Lars Finsen <lars.finsen@...> |
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| Date: | Thursday, September 13, 2007, 16:45 |
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Andreas Johansson wrote:
> Quoting MorphemeAddict@WMCONNECT.COM:
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>> Many (including German, Russian, English) also have a synonym meaning
>> "current".
>
> Current, surely, is no more a synonym of "electricity" than it is
> of "water" - electricity may be static and water stagnant, but a
> current is necessarily flowing somewhere.
Well, these languages, which include Norwegian (and, I thought,
Swedish), define "current" and "electricity" as synonymous in the
vernacular because static electricity and non-electrical currents
relatively seldom are encountered in common speech. The usage in
technical lingo of course is quite different.
LEF
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