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Tai's characterization
Rocketman:
"Heteronormative"... "pertaining to a different norm"? :?
benji:
heternormative: pertaining to the marginalization of non-heterosexuality.
Rocketman:
--- Quote from: benji on 13 Oct 2008, 13:09 ---heternormative: pertaining to the marginalization of non-heterosexuality.
--- End quote ---
Why must you people mangle poor, innocent Greek so?
Mad Cat:
It's all Greek to me.
Surgoshan:
"heter-" comes from Greek and means "of two things, one is different". In "heterosexual" it refers to the fact that the sexual coupling is of two distinct genders.
"norm" comes to us from Latin through French and means "rule or pattern".
It has long been considered gauche* to combine Greek and Latin in a single word. That's as stupid, though, as claiming you can't end an English sentence with a preposition just because it's not possible to do so in Latin. The reason we use ancient Greek and Latin words at all is because they're dead languages and hence don't have the multiplicity of meanings that common English words do. They can thus be ascribed a single, fixed meaning and add precision to technical discourse.
* from French. It means 'left'. ie. not right. Wrong.
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