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a little more on Greek and Latin 

>At 03:03 PM 1/24/98 -0800, you wrote:
>>Hello, Whit [Dr. Harry Whitaker],
>>
>>Please excuse my not responding to the entire histneur list,
>>but I do not want to wear out my welcome there.
>>
>>You are certainly right with your counter-examples of
>>"phonation" and "halitosis," where a Greek word takes on a Latin
>>ending and vice versa, but these particular words seem to enjoy
>>the privilege of a convention, namely, that processes may be
>>designated with the Latin ending "-ation" and diseases with
>>the Greek ending "-osis."
>>
>>My gripe (complaint) with "propriocepsis" was that it visited
>>violence upon (or within) the Latin stem "recipio, recipere,
>>recepi, receptus, a, um".
>>
>>Thank you for your light-hearted response in front of the 176
>>subscribers to the list.  I recognize the prestigious name of
>>Harry Whitaker, and so I appreciate your taking up my theme.
>>
>>Sincerely,
>>
>>Arthur T. Murray
>>mentifex@scn.org

>Date: Sun, 25 Jan 1998 14:43:08 -0500
>To: mentifex@scn.org
>From: Harry Whitaker 
>Subject: Re: -sis, Greek and Latin
>
>Arthur: This posting from you is taking things in precisely the right way;
>if you don't have any objections, _I'll_ post your reply to the list
>myself.(see below)
>I was indeed being light-hearted and the reason was that your initial
>posting could have been taken a bit strong; I wanted to deflect folks into
>a more congenial mood, while still thinking about Latin & Greek (and
>English, etc) and the conventions of language. As an aside, I wouldn't have
>responded at all if the topic hadn't interested me!
>As for 'prestigious names', I hope no one ever assumes that they
>should refrain from a critical assault just because the target is
>well-known, keeping, of course, our good humor in all. If you keep your
>sense of humor, you won't wear out your welcome on the list.
>Cheers,
>Whit


I do not object at all; thank you for posting it +/- this. - Arthur T. Murray
<HISTNEUR-L@library.ucla.edu>