Should we re-organize the BAUT forum?

[AndreasJ]

Originally Posted by Arneb

Telorama would be the most correct form, I think. The inflections for the Greek word for to see (horan) is weird: the Future is opsomai, from which optics etc. derive, and a form of simple past is eidon - leading to idea, ideal, etc. I don't know why the future became the model for so many words we use, but I don't think there is a reason, when creating new words, not to use the present.

FWIW, the modern Greek is teleorase (or tileorasi if we're feeling itacistic).

[Argos]

Originally Posted by grant hutchison

Yikes. Mixed Latin and Greek roots!
A quadrumvirate or a tetrarchy, please.

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A minor sin. Such hybrids, barbarisms, are of frequent usage in science and technology; accelerometer, bioprospector, electroconductive, mammography, micro-gravity, servomechanism, etc.
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We can now continue to discuss the forum organization.

[Arneb]

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Never to forget astronomical observing
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