Re: Common Orcish Article (Long) - was Re: tolkien?

Quoting Benct Philip Jonsson <bpj@...>:

> At 23:12 18.12.2003, Christophe Grandsire wrote:
>
> >Well, that would be a possibility ... but I think I'll leave it as is. If
> we
> >had dissimulation here, it ought to turn up in alot of other places too,
> >
> >Hehe, another example of a linguistic term which shows its own meaning.
> >The correct term is "dissim*i*lation" :))) .
>
> There's none as good as 'hap(lo)logy' anyway.
> What really annoys me is that some use
> 'morphonology' in earnest.  Don't they know
> what _moros_ means?
I'm not guilty of that particular sin, but nonetheless don't know what "moros"
means, unless it's the Spanish for "Moors" (or Muslim Filipinos), which seems
unlikely. Enlighten me?

                                                            Andreas

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