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The "Ink-horn" Controversy |
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Latin as the Dominant Source of
Borrowings |
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About two thirds of all
borrowing at the time was from Latin
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Latin was also the means of
entry for many words which ultimately came from Greek
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A huge number of words from
these two languages entered the general vocabulary:
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absurdity
adapt
anonymous
appropriate benefit
chaos
climax
commemorate
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crisis
critic
disability
emancipate
encyclopedia
enthusiasm
exaggerate
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exist
expensive
explain
fact
frequency
habitual
immaturity
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immediate
impersonal
inveterate
invitation
malignant
offensive
official
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relaxation
relevant
skeleton
species
susceptible
temperature
thermometer
vacuum
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Many Latinate terms entered specialized vocabularies of
sciences, such as anatomy, biology, and medicine: larynx,
pancreas, pneumonia, skeleton, tibia, ulna, and virus
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Borrowings greatly facilitated stylistic differentiation
providing synonyms with different sense associations and tonal
resonances: hearing and audition; praising
and laudatory; loving and amatory
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Don't use Latin to "talk
dirty"! |
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