Re: Poccessor (was All Praise the Fount of All Knowledge!)

At 12:10 PM 3/21/2002 -0800, you wrote:
>At 04:47 PM 3/17/02 +0000, And Rosta wrote:
>
>>"Poccessor of Arcane Trivia" should be made one of his offical titles.
>>Next, we have to decide what it means. Obviously on one level it's a
>>portmanteau of _processor_ and _possessor_, but if we take it at face
>>value, and pronounce it /p@k'sEs@(r)/, what it it mean? Creatively
>>philological minds, please make your suggestions.
>
>    I'd say just combine the meanings of the two root words: to poccess is
>to possess and process, to hold and keep but in a dynamic rather than
>static state.  In this context he'd be not only possessing the arcane
>trivia, but constantly processing it into new arcane trivia.

    Or processing it into Japanese pocket monsters to manipulate via the
arcane knowledge and thereby conquer the world (or at least American
children under 12).

   Aidan

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