Re: Jokers wild (was: Re: Some help with Latin)

On Sep 26, 2007, at 7:52 PM, Douglas Koller wrote:

> From: "Mark J. Reed" <markjreed@...>
>
>> New verbs in Spanish are specifically -ear, TTBOMK.
>
> Hadn't thought of that. Thanks.
>
>> As for -ness, it's definitely still the usual suspect, although the
>> mainstreamification of the Internet - and some portion of geekish
>> subculture with it - has broadened the scope of two counter trends:
>> wordplay-based alternatives ('terifficity")
>
> which goes back to my ready parallel point, yes?: electric -->
> electricity; terrific --> terrificity
>
>> and bare forms used as
>> nouns without modification ("full of awesome").  Cue another of those
>> "o tempora, o mores" rants you mentioned. ;)
>
> Indeed. I'm going to sit on my porch, go to bed after Walter
> Cronkite and my bowl of tapioca, and chase them damned whipper-
> snappers off of my lawn. :)
>
> Kou
Hehe. It annoys me when people add -ness to a noun (although, sadly,
I've done it spontaneously a few times myself).