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WCDT: 2573-2577 (11-15 November 2013) Weekly Comics Discussion Thread
Platypodes:
The dictionary definitions of polygyny and polyandry do refer specifically to marriage, tho. A fair number of words mean something more specific than the sum of their parts.... Like homo = same, phobia = fear, and to literally get "fear of same-sex bangin'" the word would have to be homosexualphobia except that someone wisely decided not to pile up suffixes like that... although polygamygyny would be a pretty fun word to say.
KOK:
Is polyandrooligogynogamy better than polygynooligoandrogamy?
Method of Madness:
No...and I'm pretty sure you can merge the double o into a single o.
Storel:
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--- Quote from: maxh on 15 Nov 2013, 15:36 ---OED says it was cranch.
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Scanners live in vain?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scanners_Live_in_Vain
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Ha, I wasn't the only one who thought of that! You clearly have excellent taste in science fiction.
--- Quote from: RightInTheSquishyParts on 15 Nov 2013, 22:58 ---You mean there is at LEAST ONE OTHER PERSON who knows of these works?
Fantastic.
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As do you.
--- Quote from: KOK on 16 Nov 2013, 00:27 ---More than one.
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Goodness, I had no idea there were this many Cordwainer Smith fans still around! 8-)
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--- Quote from: Skewbrow on 15 Nov 2013, 22:47 ---Thanks for the link, Zoe. Sounds like a story I want to read :-)
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Yes you do. Along with "A Planet named Shayol". "The Game of Rat and Dragon". "The Ballad of Lost C'Mell". "Norstrilia".
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Sounds like you have the same "Best of Cordwainer Smith" paperback collection that I do.
--- Quote from: ZoeB on 17 Nov 2013, 00:48 ---Buy them in hard copy or e-book form though. Anything by Cordwainer Smith. You'll thank me.
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I completely agree.
--- Quote from: ZoeB on 17 Nov 2013, 00:48 ---Some of his works were written in "the shadow of Black Mountain", at the ANU where I teach.
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Cool!
KOK:
I have two volumes of Cordwainer Smith, The Rediscovery of Man and Norstrilia. According to Wikipedia, these contain all of his science fiction. I also have several unrelated collections of the best of science fiction containing Scaners Live in Vain.
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