Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site dartvax.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!security!genrad!decvax!dartvax!andyb From: andyb@dartvax.UUCP (Andy Behrens) Newsgroups: net.nlang Subject: Re: 'lost positives' Message-ID: <661@dartvax.UUCP> Date: Mon, 30-Jan-84 20:41:20 EST Article-I.D.: dartvax.661 Posted: Mon Jan 30 20:41:20 1984 Date-Received: Thu, 2-Feb-84 00:52:31 EST References: <362@rayssd.UUCP> Organization: Dartmouth College Lines: 14 > 'misbegotten'- are you referred to as 'begotten'? > 'miscegenation'- when two people of the same skin have sex, do we > usually say that they are 'cegenating'? "Begotten" may not be in common use, but it still exists, perhaps kept alive by the Biblical references to an "only-begotten Son". And it has a corresponding verb form "beget". As for "miscegenation", the prefix is not "mis-", but "misce-", and the whole word literally means "mixed begetting". -- Andy Behrens East Thetford, Vermont {decvax,linus}!dartvax!andyb