http://boyinthebands.com/archives/one-for-the-discordians/ Scott Wells on the practice of Christian faith Fri, 04 Jul 2008 22:39:01 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5 http://boyinthebands.com/archives/one-for-the-discordians/#comment-26016 Scott Wells Mon, 25 Sep 2006 04:06:03 +0000 http://boyinthebands.com/archives/one-for-the-discordians/#comment-26016 Fair enough -- and not to be dyspeptic -- but Dysnomia, an no Anomia is Eris's daughter. A pop-culture pun is only added-value. Fair enough — and not to be dyspeptic — but Dysnomia, an no Anomia is Eris’s daughter. A pop-culture pun is only added-value.

]]> http://boyinthebands.com/archives/one-for-the-discordians/#comment-25987 LinguistFriend Fri, 22 Sep 2006 13:13:48 +0000 http://boyinthebands.com/archives/one-for-the-discordians/#comment-25987 'dysnomia" in Greek is translated "lawlessness, bad constitution" by the standard Liddell-Scott-Jones dictionary of Greek. It seems to me that Bill Frist is really a better namesake than Lucy Lawless, however. The thing is that the basic Greek word for "lawlessness" is anomia (much better attested), with negative a- from syllabic n- "not". The prefix dus- or dys- means "bad". See in general the American Heritage Dictionary, better than Wikipedia; the etymologies in the AHD were under the review of Cal Watkins, one of my teachers, who really knows this stuff. See Chantraine's or Frisk's Greek etymological dictionaries if you really want to look up a Greek etymology. LinguistFriend ‘dysnomia” in Greek is translated “lawlessness, bad constitution” by the standard Liddell-Scott-Jones dictionary of Greek. It seems to me that Bill Frist is really a better namesake than Lucy Lawless, however. The thing is that the basic Greek word for “lawlessness” is anomia (much better attested), with negative a- from syllabic n- “not”. The prefix dus- or dys- means “bad”. See in general the American Heritage Dictionary, better than Wikipedia; the etymologies in the AHD were under the review of Cal Watkins, one of my teachers, who really knows this stuff. See Chantraine’s or Frisk’s Greek etymological dictionaries if you really want to look up a Greek etymology.
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