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eftychia at 07:36am on 2008-04-17
eftychia at 07:36am on 2008-04-17- A band leader telling the audience each band member's name would be another example of an extraduction, no?
- Reading 'γραφειν' where I expect 'γραφω' isn't quite as large a cognitive hiccup as seeing 'graphein' where I expect 'grapho', because unless I'm very awake the former feels like a one step mental correction but the second feels like two steps in my head. (OTOH, without the context marking 'grapho' as a foreign verb, it would be easy to misparse it as the English noun (directly related to the Greek verb etymologically, of course) referring to a slip of the pen (the handwritten parallel to a 'typo'), while the omega on the end of 'γραφω' is a clear Glenn-brain signal to expect the word to be a 1s verb. (Not that it's even the slightest bit of help to someone who knows no Greek -- like how seeing Sanskrit roots in Devanagari script wouldn't help me at all -- so it's a good thing there are different dictionaries with different practices with regard to transliteration for folks with different language skills to use.) Really I just should have picked a different verb that doesn't have that problem, like 'pheugo'/'φευγω'. But when the context is an etymology preceding a definition, that misparsing of 'grapho' seems unlikely anyhow.)