Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/05/10
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Sorry Martin, I thought you wanted to know the root meaning which is, in the language my 13 year old teratogeny*, monsterish, of, or, dealings with, monsters. The ~ implies you can plug these many endings on the comb. (combining root). Finally the a. is an abbreviation for adjective and the n. is an abbreviation for noun. Of course OED stands for Oxford English Dictionary and I think that is it! ;-) John Collier *It is true! You should meet my ex-wife! > From: Martin Howard <howard.390@osu.edu> > > John Collier jotted down the following: > >> terato- comb. form. monster, as ~genic a. ~geny n., etc >> >> OED >> > > And to this, I ask again: What is a teratoid? Or, perhaps you could > translate the OED gibberish above into something resembling English. I > don't speak OED. > > M. > > -- > Martin Howard | "We can't make mistakes like that on our > Visiting Scholar, CSEL, OSU | own. We need computers to help us." > email: howard.390@osu.edu | -- A pharmacologist on computerization > www: http://mvhoward.i.am/ +------------------------------------------- > >