Re: ,Language' in language name?

On Fri, 30 Nov 2001, nicole dobrowolski wrote:

> --- Tristan Alexander McLeay froge sionk:
> > and it's the feminists being
> > istic when they say that they are the same just on the grounds of a
> > similar spelling.
> >
> is istic short for feministic?... or is that a word i'm not familiar
> with (nor is the encarta online dictionary...)
It means `discrimantory', from `-ist' which joins onto word to make
someone descriminate on those grounds, and `-ic'. I'm sure I've seen it in
one dictionary, although I could be confusing it with some other thing
like that. Definately colloq., though, so it wouldn't be in every, or even
the majority of, dictionaries.


Tristan

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