Also, my posts should be taken as conversation-starters there is no expectation of “staying on topic,”and some of the best threads have gone in entirely unexpected directions. And occasionally the software will decide a comment is spam and it won’t even go into moderation if a comment disappears on you, send me an e-mail and I’ll try to rescue it. If your comment goes into moderation (which can happen if it has too many links or if the software just takes it into its head to be suspicious), I will usually set it free reasonably quickly… unless it happens during the night, say between 10 PM and 8 AM Eastern Time (US), in which case you’ll have to wait. You will not only get your purchases, you will get my blessings and a karmic boost! (I don’t otherwise participateĪnd you can support my book habit without even spending money on me by following my Amazon links to do your shopping (if, of course, you like shopping on Amazon) As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases (I get a small percentage of every dollar spent while someone is following my referral links), and every month I get a gift certificate that allows me to buy a few books (or, if someone has bought a big-ticket item, even more). If your preferred feed is Twitter, you can follow to get My name is Steve Dodson I’m a retired copyeditor currently living in western Massachusetts after many years in New York City. (If it matters, “she” is the protagonist of Viktor Erofeev’s Russian Beauty.)Ĭommented-On Language Hat Posts (courtesy of J.C. If anyone has any helpful suggestions, I’m all ears. While I have your attention, I am puzzled by the term “affectus” in the following sentence from Russia’s Alternative Prose, by Robert Porter (Berg, 1994): “It would be difficult to find a more authentic-sounding amalgam of half-digested official propaganda, perfunctory reading, emotional confusion and popular bigotry than Irina’s outpourings here – she sounds like the Soviet equivalent of an affectus-cum-aficionado of the British gutter press.” The word, if it can be called that in English, isn’t in the OED or any other dictionary I have access to, and I’m afraid Etymology Man isn’t of much help, since the Latin word affectus has too many meanings (as a noun, ‘mental state strong feeling physical condition influence eagerness sympathy, affection purpose attitude,’ and as an adjective ‘endowed with disposed (harmfully) affected, impaired related (to), connected (with) emotional’) and it’s not clear which if any might be intended. Xkcd presents: Etymology Man! As always, don’t forget to read the mouseover text.
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