>> Languages Dept. of the university where I work.
>> On the reverse formation, Annie Dillard has a bright teenager coining
>> "intelligentsium"
>> (as singular from intelligentsia) as a term for herself, presumably the
> only
>> intelligent person in her community.
> doesn't _intelligentsia_ or _intelligetsa_ (guessing at the spelling) come
> from Russian? *curious*
I personally don't believe in that. Anyway, in Russian the singular
form from интеллигенция is интеллигент (intelligent).
Интеллигенты
(intelligenty) means a certain number of intelligents, while
intelligentsia means intelligents in general.
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