Re: Connglish

--- 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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