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Re: SKB on dictionaries, "astuteness," and "Nabokovianness"
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SKB,
I only have access to "The New Fowler's" Modern English Usage (Ed.
Burchfield, 3rd edition). The precious authorization you mentioned:
[ 'In the introduction, the Fowlers make the following remarkable
remark: "A
small number of these suffixes stand apart from the rest as being
attachable
WITH ABSOLUTE FREEDOM to _any_ English word fulfilling certain
conditions,
without regard to whether it is known EVER to have had the suffix
attached
to it before or NOT." (The list of these suffixes includes -ly; -ness;
-er
[agent]; -er -est [comparitive/superlative]; -able; -ish; -less;
-like.)]
is apparently absent from the introduction for the 1996 revised edition.
For greater concision (or conciseness) I suggest we try to distinguish
Nabokovianness from Nabokovianity and, next, consult the New MEU for new
instructions about "suffixes added to proper names".
After we Nabokovianize Nabokoviana we proceed to evaluate their OEDness
since... "fame by itself was not enough, unless formations
in -iana, -ism, -ite, -ize, and so on, were also found to exist."
Jansy
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I only have access to "The New Fowler's" Modern English Usage (Ed.
Burchfield, 3rd edition). The precious authorization you mentioned:
[ 'In the introduction, the Fowlers make the following remarkable
remark: "A
small number of these suffixes stand apart from the rest as being
attachable
WITH ABSOLUTE FREEDOM to _any_ English word fulfilling certain
conditions,
without regard to whether it is known EVER to have had the suffix
attached
to it before or NOT." (The list of these suffixes includes -ly; -ness;
-er
[agent]; -er -est [comparitive/superlative]; -able; -ish; -less;
-like.)]
is apparently absent from the introduction for the 1996 revised edition.
For greater concision (or conciseness) I suggest we try to distinguish
Nabokovianness from Nabokovianity and, next, consult the New MEU for new
instructions about "suffixes added to proper names".
After we Nabokovianize Nabokoviana we proceed to evaluate their OEDness
since... "fame by itself was not enough, unless formations
in -iana, -ism, -ite, -ize, and so on, were also found to exist."
Jansy
Search the archive: http://listserv.ucsb.edu/archives/nabokv-l.html
Contact the Editors: mailto:nabokv-l@utk.edu,nabokv-l@holycross.edu
Visit Zembla: http://www.libraries.psu.edu/nabokov/zembla.htm
View Nabokv-L policies: http://web.utk.edu/~sblackwe/EDNote.htm