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Re: Connglish

From:Gary Shannon <fiziwig@...>
Date:Monday, November 20, 2006, 19:58
--- caeruleancentaur <caeruleancentaur@...> wrote:

> --- In conlang@yahoogroups.com, "Mark J. Reed" <markjreed@...> wrote: > > >See, woefully ignorant of Church terminology as I am, it would never > >have occurred to me that there was such a word as "catechist", and > >if there were I would have assumed by analogy with other -ism/-ist > >pairs that it referred more generally to someone who believed in the > >doctrine explained by the catechsm, not specifically an > >instructor... > > >But Now I Know, and Knowing is Half the Battle! > > We also use the verb "catechize," to teach the catechism, and the > noun "catechesis," instruction from the catechism.
<snip> And of course there is "cataclysmic" which best describes the nun’s reaction when ever I turned in my test papers in catechism class. --gary

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