When I encounter a new word
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conulyAfter working it out from context, I typically try to connect it to words I already know.
I wonder what it says about me that my first thought when I saw the word "lenitive" was to think "lenition" and not, as they suggest, lenient.
(I don't actually wonder. That's rhetorical. I know what it says about me.)
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I wonder what it says about me that my first thought when I saw the word "lenitive" was to think "lenition" and not, as they suggest, lenient.
(I don't actually wonder. That's rhetorical. I know what it says about me.)
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What The Yom Kippur Fast Means To A Man Who's Known Hunger
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How Midwestern Suffragists Won the Vote by Attacking Immigrants
The FBI Plot to Bring Down the Gay Man Behind the March on Washington
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Has the world come to rely on an imaginary technology to save it?
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From Harriet Tubman...
Date: 2018-09-20 12:59 am (UTC)Looking forward to our next C$10 banknote design...
https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/canadian-banknote-woman-1.3885844
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Date: 2018-09-20 04:08 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2018-09-20 01:38 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2018-09-19 10:38 pm (UTC)Away to heaven, respective lenity,
And fire-eyed fury be my conduct now!"
(Yeah, I know what it says about me that that was my first thought.)
Lenity, leniency, lenitive and lenition are all related words, and all describe the softening of something ordinarily harsher, but not (necessarily) the same sort of things. In the context of linguistics, lenition is just one of six, count'em, SIX different types of consonant mutations in Sindarin.
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Date: 2018-09-20 05:10 pm (UTC)