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posted by [personal profile] eftychia at 05:25am on 2006-02-11 under

"'Spy' is such an ugly word. I prefer 'espionage.' Those extra three syllables really say something." -- Petey, in the science fiction comic strip Schlock Mercenary by Howard Tayler ([livejournal.com profile] howardtayler), 2005-11-17

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posted by [identity profile] peaceofpie.livejournal.com at 01:13pm on 2006-02-11
So would someone who engages in espionage then be an "espionager" instead of a "spy"? Or an "espionagist"? Or an "espionagier"?
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posted by [identity profile] jmax315.livejournal.com at 01:38pm on 2006-02-11
Espionographer.
(Yes, I know the root-suffix combination is all wrong. But it sounds great.)
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posted by [identity profile] dglenn.livejournal.com at 08:27pm on 2006-02-11
Espionagent (inevitably shortened to "agent", of course).
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posted by [identity profile] dglenn.livejournal.com at 08:30pm on 2006-02-11
... But an espionagrapher would be somebody who write spy novels ... or perhaps someone who wrote training manuals for spies, or took notes and delivered reports from spies, or ... We can make that suffix work one way or another.
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