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Message no. 1
From: Sight Unseen <toabo@****.UTEXAS.EDU>
Subject: Re: "Entymology"
Date: Sat, 2 Nov 1996 05:51:26 -0500
Not to be too much of a nit-picker, but since you're going deep into
the various meanings of of suffixes and prefixes, I thought it best to point
out that the word is "etymology", not "entymology." (The latter is
either a
mispelling of the former or of "entomology," the study of insects.)

Have Dictionary, Will Travel
Message no. 2
From: Bull <chaos@*****.COM>
Subject: Re: "Entymology"
Date: Sat, 2 Nov 1996 03:03:05 -0500
> Not to be too much of a nit-picker, but since you're going deep into
>the various meanings of of suffixes and prefixes, I thought it best to point
>out that the word is "etymology", not "entymology." (The latter
is either a
>mispelling of the former or of "entomology," the study of insects.)
>
>Have Dictionary, Will Travel
>
However, Entymology could take on a whole new meaning in the world of
Shadowrun... a world where things like the Insect Spirits exist and are one
of the greatest threats mankind has ever known...

Hmmm.... Maybe you could call Insect Shamans Entomancers??

-Bull-the-I-see-way-too-many-bugs-way-too-often-decker-turned-GM
Message no. 3
From: Spike <u5a77@*****.CS.KEELE.AC.UK>
Subject: Re: "Entymology"
Date: Sun, 3 Nov 1996 12:57:06 +0000
|However, Entymology could take on a whole new meaning in the world of
|Shadowrun... a world where things like the Insect Spirits exist and are one
|of the greatest threats mankind has ever known...
|
|Hmmm.... Maybe you could call Insect Shamans Entomancers??

But, but, but I thought Entomancers were people who used Ents for
divination.....
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Message no. 4
From: Spike <u5a77@*****.CS.KEELE.AC.UK>
Subject: Re: "Entymology"
Date: Sun, 3 Nov 1996 12:55:36 +0000
|
| Not to be too much of a nit-picker, but since you're going deep into
|the various meanings of of suffixes and prefixes, I thought it best to point
|out that the word is "etymology", not "entymology." (The latter is
either a
|mispelling of the former or of "entomology," the study of insects.)
|
|Have Dictionary, Will Travel
|

Slightly more.... appropriate than you'd think, considering...
Ehhhh, Bull?
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|Andrew Halliwell | "ARSE! GERLS!! DRINK! DRINK! DRINK!!!" |
|Principal subjects in:- | "THAT WOULD BE AN ECUMENICAL MATTER!...FECK!!!! |
|Comp Sci & Electronics | - Father Jack in "Father Ted"
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Message no. 5
From: big_jake <big_jake@****.COM>
Subject: Re: "Entymology"
Date: Sun, 3 Nov 1996 08:16:16 -0600
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On Saturday, 2 Nov 1996, Scam wrote:
> I see where you're coming from and it is good, logical thinking.

<blush> Gawrsh, thanks!

> But, and
> you may know this already and were justing broadening all our
> intellectual horizons

Yeah, that was the general idea.

> (which I whole-heartedly and sincerely thank you
> for),

You're most welcome.

> but the term "cybermancy" in regards to Shadowrun refers to the...
<snip!>

Yes, I did know that already. I would guess the FASA folk did, too,
but decided that cybermancy sounded too cool not to use it.

On Saturday, 2 Nov 1996, Sight Unseen wrote:
<snip!>
> ...the word is "etymology", not "entymology." (The latter is
either a
> mispelling of the former or of "entomology," the study of insects.)

I'm glad SOMEONE caught it. It wasn't meant to be a misspelling (BTW,
you misspelled "misspelling," but it IS one of the most commonly
misspelled words in the English language, after all) of either word.
It was actually (a rather lame attempt at) a pun. I felt that my post
was, like yours, picking nits, and nits are insects. "Entymology" was
meant to be a synthesis of etymology and entomology. <gd&r>

On Saturday, 2 Nov 1996, Bull wrote:
> Hmmm.... Maybe you could call Insect Shamans Entomancers??

<lol>

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Message no. 6
From: Bull <chaos@*****.COM>
Subject: Re: "Entymology"
Date: Sun, 3 Nov 1996 15:03:23 -0500
>|However, Entymology could take on a whole new meaning in the world of
>|Shadowrun... a world where things like the Insect Spirits exist and are one
>|of the greatest threats mankind has ever known...
>|
>|Hmmm.... Maybe you could call Insect Shamans Entomancers??
>
>But, but, but I thought Entomancers were people who used Ents for
>divination.....
>
Ok Andrew, THWAP yourself for that. You know you deserve it...

-Bull-the-believer-in-self-THWAPPING-decker-turned-GM
Message no. 7
From: Spike <u5a77@*****.CS.KEELE.AC.UK>
Subject: Re: "Entymology"
Date: Mon, 4 Nov 1996 12:08:34 +0000
|Ok Andrew, THWAP yourself for that. You know you deserve it...

OK...
thwap....
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|u5a77@*****.cs.keele.ac.uk| |
|Andrew Halliwell | "ARSE! GERLS!! DRINK! DRINK! DRINK!!!" |
|Principal subjects in:- | "THAT WOULD BE AN ECUMENICAL MATTER!...FECK!!!! |
|Comp Sci & Electronics | - Father Jack in "Father Ted"
|
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|X+/++ R+ tv+ b+ D G e>PhD h/h+ !r! !y-|I can't say F**K either now! >*SULK*<|
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