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Saturday, February 19, 2011

Grice on unnatural

From today's World Wide Words, ed. Quinion:

"FRANKENSTEINIAN? The word ANTHROPOEIA has appeared several times in
my reading in the past week, because it has featured in discussions
of Philip Ball's new book Unnatural. He invented it for the concept
of artificially creating human beings by processes such as cloning.
It's from classical Greek "anthros", man + "poiein", to make (as in
"onomatopoeia", forming a word from a sound, and "mythopoeia", the
creation of myths)."

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