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Discussion Groups / English Usage / August 2009infloration
Hello: Does OED have "infloration?" Can't find it in the NSOD and the M-W U, nor anywhere else. -- Thanks. Marius Hancu > Hello: > > Does OED have "infloration?" > > Can't find it in the NSOD and the M-W U, nor anywhere else. No, nor does it have "floration".  SignatureDavid > Hello: > [quoted text clipped - 5 lines] > Thanks. > Marius Hancu in-fluoridation? > Does OED have "infloration?" > > Can't find it in the NSOD and the M-W U, nor anywhere else. You have spotted one of Anthony Burgess's private games, enjoyed by most readers, deplored by a few, viz. using rare words that are or might be real but have (so far) been missed by (most) lexicographers. When writing copious book reviews (collected as But Do Blondes Prefer Gentlemen?, 1986) Burgess seemed to get one surprise word into every review. My list pencilled inside the back cover includes: cecicity, lordlily, halitoxic, bemerding, proleptic, audient, amate, holophrastic, semanteme, and more besides. He was crazy as a jaybird half the time, of course, but put the craziness into his books (most, not all, not so much Earthly Powers) rather than politics, drink, wife-beating wife etc. -- a marvellous author, rivalled as a scholar too only by Nabokov. I know of no other human being who completed, besides all those novels, an orchestral symphony and a Broadway musical and a valuable technical textbook (on phonetics.) He even knew how to live when not at work (cf. his article on Barcelona.) SignatureDon Phillipson Carlsbad Springs (Ottawa, Canada) > > Can't find it in the NSOD and the M-W U, nor anywhere else. > [quoted text clipped - 7 lines] > cecicity, lordlily, halitoxic, bemerding, proleptic, audient, > amate, holophrastic, semanteme, and more besides. Yes, it is from Burgess:-) > He was crazy as a jaybird half the time, of course, but put the > craziness into his books (most, not all, not so much Earthly [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] > and a valuable technical textbook (on phonetics.) He even > knew how to live when not at work (cf. his article on Barcelona.) Yes, the more I learn about him, the more fascinating he seems to have been. I knew "A Clockwork Orange," and this is such a departure from it, in a totally different direction. Thanks. Marius Hancu Don Phillipson filted (re Anthony Burgess): >He was crazy as a jaybird half the time, of course, but put the >craziness into his books (most, not all, not so much Earthly [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] >and a valuable technical textbook (on phonetics.) He even >knew how to live when not at work (cf. his article on Barcelona.) Am I imagining things, or was he not also implicated in the creation of the "Paku" language spoken by the primitive monkey-people on the children's program "Land of the Lost" (made into a feature film earlier this year)?...r SignatureA pessimist sees the glass as half empty. An optometrist asks whether you see the glass more full like this?...or like this? > Don Phillipson filted (re Anthony Burgess): > >He was crazy as a jaybird half the time, of course, but put the > >craziness into his books (most, not all, not so much Earthly [quoted text clipped - 8 lines] > "Paku" language spoken by the primitive monkey-people on the children's program > "Land of the Lost" (made into a feature film earlier this year)?...r Dunno, but he did once say that all writers masturbate like monkeys (which suggests that not all of his craziness went into his books). -- VB [...] > Dunno, but he did once say that all writers masturbate like monkeys > (which suggests that not all of his craziness went into his books). How do monkeys masturbate? (I gots to know.) SignatureLes (BrE) > > Dunno, but he did once say that all writers masturbate like monkeys > > (which suggests that not all of his craziness went into his books). > > How do monkeys masturbate? (I gots to know.) From dawn to dusk in front of large plate-glass windows, in my experience. -- VB Ce n'est pas à un vieux singe qu'on apprend à faire la grimace >>> Dunno, but he did once say that all writers masturbate like >>> monkeys (which suggests that not all of his craziness went into [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] > From dawn to dusk in front of large plate-glass windows, in my > experience. Hard to generalize that to " ... monkeys ... ", if they were behind plate glass. One of my grad school roommates was assigned the task of monitoring macaque behavior at the San Diego zoo, as part of his Comparative Psychology studies. He said the most interesting part of the project was comments from passers-by. Some seriously questioned his motivations, and at least one said she wished she could be that uninhibited. SignatureFrank ess > [...] > >> Dunno, but he did once say that all writers masturbate like monkeys >> (which suggests that not all of his craziness went into his books). > > How do monkeys masturbate? (I gots to know.) Are you sure? Are you *really* sure? Not a monkey, but here's a video of a male bonobo masturbating: http://www.arkive.org/bonobo/pan-paniscus/video-16.html He uses his feet. There are a lot of videos of apes and monkeys masturbating on YouTube. They seemed to tend to use their hands. Not to mention a video of a kangaroo doing something that I honestly had no idea that a kangaroo could do to/for himself: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vGPLrRqkDY8&feature=related (There should probably be a warning here, but I'm not sure how I'd word it. Consider yourself warned.) I suspect that the basic idea of the phrase, however, is that other primates don't seem to care if others watch, so they don't hide it. This gets to the notion of masturbation making you go blind or insane. Those were the two types of people you were most likely to see masturbating: the blind, because they didn't realize you were there, and the insane, because they didn't care. SignatureEvan Kirshenbaum +------------------------------------ HP Laboratories |_Bauplan_ is just the German word 1501 Page Mill Road, 1U, MS 1141 |for blueprint. Typically, one Palo Alto, CA 94304 |switches languages to indicate |profundity. kirshenbaum@hpl.hp.com | Richard Dawkins (650)857-7572 http://www.kirshenbaum.net/ [...] > Not to mention a video of a kangaroo doing something that I honestly > had no idea that a kangaroo could do to/for himself: > > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vGPLrRqkDY8&feature=related Skippy might not be a bush kangaroo in that instance but at least he's not an exhibitionist. He stopped and washed his hands as soon as the duck waddled past. (Do all erect non-human mammalian penises look like spindly parsnips? That's two out of two so far.) [snip speculation] -- VB, who won't mention w.nking again if he's given £6 million of public money [...] > Not to mention a video of a kangaroo doing something that I honestly > had no idea that a kangaroo could do to/for himself: [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] > (There should probably be a warning here, but I'm not sure how I'd > word it. Consider yourself warned.) As any fule kno, YouTube is a place where one thing leads to another. I turned back when I came to the masturbating parrot. Perhaps I should rephrase that: I turned back before the parrot came. [...] SignatureLes (BrE) >Hello: > >Does OED have "infloration?" > >Can't find it in the NSOD and the M-W U, nor anywhere else. So, did you dream it? SignatureJohn On Sun, 30 Aug 2009 05:49:14 -0700 (PDT), Marius Hancu <marius.hancu@gmail.com> wrote: > Hello: > > Does OED have "infloration?" > > Can't find it in the NSOD and the M-W U, nor anywhere else. Maybe you mean "inflorescence"? Signatureathel >On Sun, 30 Aug 2009 05:49:14 -0700 (PDT), Marius Hancu ><marius.hancu@gmail.com> wrote: [quoted text clipped - 6 lines] > >Maybe you mean "inflorescence"? Google finds "infloration"s. http://www.pittsburghcitypaper.ws/gyrobase/Content?oid=oid%3A59332 He's explaining that the main characteristic used to classify plant families is their flowers -- infloration. The flower he wants to discuss is discernable by its spath and spadix, reproductive structures commonly seen on tropical plants. Standing at the whiteboard, he quickly sketches a flower structure that soon becomes familiar -- at least to anyone who has a peace lily at home. http://www.constantcritic.com/joyelle_mcsweeney/organic_furniture_cellar/ My favorite part of "The Plasticity of Poetry (A Poetics)" is the infloration of terminology that takes up its last few pages. http://www.thecitizen.com/~citizen0/node/35552 {News report by Ben Nelms] Comment on the report: Granted, Nelms never misses an opportunity for needless prosodic infloration. However, the point remains that Darius knocked a kid out cold. There appear to be at least two usages above. There is the technical use, infloration of plants, and then the figurative use referring to flowerness and flowery outbreaks. SignaturePeter Duncanson, UK (in alt.usage.english) >There appear to be at least two usages above. There is the technical >use, infloration of plants, and then the figurative use referring to >flowerness and flowery outbreaks. Clearly, this is a word the OED needs to be made aware of. -GAWollman SignatureGarrett A. Wollman | What intellectual phenomenon can be older, or more oft wollman@bimajority.org| repeated, than the story of a large research program Opinions not shared by| that impaled itself upon a false central assumption my employers. | accepted by all practitioners? - S.J. Gould, 1993 >>There appear to be at least two usages above. There is the technical >>use, infloration of plants, and then the figurative use referring to >>flowerness and flowery outbreaks. > >Clearly, this is a word the OED needs to be made aware of. It also doesn't know of "flowerness" (my typo for "floweriness"). SignaturePeter Duncanson, UK (in alt.usage.english) >> There appear to be at least two usages above. There is the technical >> use, infloration of plants, and then the figurative use referring to >> flowerness and flowery outbreaks. > > Clearly, this is a word the OED needs to be made aware of. Yes. I'd synonymize it as "emblooming", or perhaps "emblossoming". (OED reveals good word from Urquhart's Rabelais: "emblustricate" = "bewilder". Must read that one day, even if I have already.) SignatureMike. ["infloration"] >Yes. I'd synonymize it as "emblooming", or perhaps "emblossoming". Well, it was reasonably obvious for me, being built on the same pattern as "innervation", "insolation", and so on. /usr/share/dict/web2 shows a number of words which appear to follow this pattern: inauguration, inauration, incameration, incantation, incarceration, incardination, incarnation, incatenation, incavation, incensation, inceration, inchoation, incineration, incitation, incoronation, incorporation, incrassation, incremation, incrementation, increpation, incrimination, incrustation, incubation, inculcation, inculpation, incultivation, incuneation, incurvation, indagation, indentation, indigitation, indignation, individuation, indoctrination, indoctrinization, inebriation, inestivation, inexpectation, infatuation, infestation, infeudation, infibulation, infiltration, infinitation, infirmation, inflammation, inflation, information, infrigidation, infumation, infuriation, infuscation, ingemination, ingeneration, ingratiation, ingravidation, ingurgitation, inhabitation, inhalation, inhumation, initiation, inlagation, innervation, innovation, inoculation, inosculation, inquartation, inquination, inquiration, inscenation, insemination, insinuation, insolation, inspheration, inspiration, inspissation, installation, instauration, instellation, instigation, instillation, insufflation, insulation, insultation, intagliation, integration, integumentation, intellectation, intemeration, inteneration, intensation, intensification, intestation, intimation, intimidation, intoleration, intonation, intoxation, intoxication, intubation, inumbration, inundation, inusitation, invaccination, invagination, invermination, investigation, invigilation, invigoration, invination, inviscation, invitation, invocation, invultuation There's 112 in this list, after removing -- hopefully -- all the words where "in-" is not a morpheme or has the sense of negation. I've probably missed some. -GAWollman SignatureGarrett A. Wollman | What intellectual phenomenon can be older, or more oft wollman@bimajority.org| repeated, than the story of a large research program Opinions not shared by| that impaled itself upon a false central assumption my employers. | accepted by all practitioners? - S.J. Gould, 1993 >>> There appear to be at least two usages above. There is the technical >>> use, infloration of plants, and then the figurative use referring to [quoted text clipped - 5 lines] >reveals good word from Urquhart's Rabelais: "emblustricate" = >"bewilder". Must read that one day, even if I have already.) Speaking of flowery imagery, Henry Flowers was a pseudonym Leopold Bloom used when writing to his penfriend Martha in James Joyce's "Ulysses". For more: http://ksumail.kennesaw.edu/~mglosup/ulysses/lotus.htm SignatureRegards, Chuck Riggs, who speaks AmE, lives near Dublin, Ireland and usually spells in BrE |
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