Stupid little iota of an idea

spir denis.spir at gmail.com
Thu Feb 10 15:31:11 PST 2011


On 02/10/2011 11:50 PM, Jesse Phillips wrote:
> spir Wrote:
>
>> Use "Interval". Actually better than range, because it's an international word
>> (thus far easier for non-native English speakers). English very often provides
>> 2 words (typically one is germanic, the other imported); choose the
>> international one when none is obviously better.
>
> I would have thought that Greek/Latin would have been a more "International Word"

That's what I meant, but obviously was not clear. (Yes, very often 
international words means of greek/latin origin but there are numerous 
counter-examples in both senses; I mean greco-latin roots which have not been 
adopted in "international lexicon" --like range, precisely--, and international 
terms from other origins --like 'bug" ;-). ()

Denis
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