Re:Unicode character “ꙮ” (U+A66E) is being updated
by anthk on Monday September 19, 2022 @07:07PM
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Cent is easy to grasp if you speak a Romance.
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Re:Unicode character “ꙮ” (U+A66E) is being updated
by thaumasiotes on Monday September 19, 2022 @07:13PM
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But it doesn't combine with ops. You'd need to talk about a hecatops or a hecatontops. And even more than it can't combine with ops, it can't combine with clops because there is no such root.
Re:Unicode character “ꙮ” (U+A66E) is being updated
by Someone on Tuesday September 20, 2022 @02:01AM
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It does. Combining Latin and Greek roots is done fairly frequently.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hybrid_word mentions automobile, chloroform, hexadecimal, micro-instruction, petroleum, television and a few others.
Re:Unicode character “ꙮ” (U+A66E) is being updated
by dragonwriter on Tuesday September 20, 2022 @09:31PM
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Citing wikipedia (“wiki” is a Hawaiian-derived root, and “-pedia” a Greek-derived suffix) is particularly appropriate here.
Re:Unicode character “ꙮ” (U+A66E) is being updated
by jerf on Tuesday September 20, 2022 @09:37AM
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The thing that will annoy you most of all is that I was fully aware of all of this at the time... and I did it anyways.
Truly the purity of English will never recover from the trauma that I have inflicted on it.
Re:Unicode character “ꙮ” (U+A66E) is being updated
by dragonwriter on Tuesday September 20, 2022 @09:29PM
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> But it doesn't combine with ops.
Sure, it does, in English, which stole prefixes, suffixes, and roots from Latin, Greek, and many other languages, and has no problem using them together, without special concern about where it got them from.