Redup. in aorist

Carl W. Conrad cwconrad at artsci.wustl.edu
Tue Mar 7 08:46:24 EST 2000


At 7:26 AM -0600 3/7/00, Steven Craig Miller wrote:
>To: Carlton Winbery,
>
><< Here we see the very interesting occurrence of "swappance" in modern
>English. *Perhaps* becomes *Perphas* by this process which is sorta like
>swapping the castle with the queen in chess. >>
>
>Hmm ... I think you meant "like swapping the rook (aka the castle) with the
>king in Chess." The rook and queen can not swap places, but the king and
>rook do something very similar to swapping places (the king moves two
>squares towards the rook, and the rook is placed on the other side of the
>king).

And, I suppose, both processes could be termed METAQESIS, if we wanted (but
would we want?) to bring the matter back again to Greek.

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