Monday, October 20, 2008

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Last night, M-High or whatever her secret name is mentioned that she was learning about morphs in her into linguistics course. I learned about them by the name of morphemes, but it's all pretty much the same thing. (Morphs are vocal, morphemes are written, from what I understand. Linguists of the world, throw off your chains and correct me.) She mentioned that the term "morph" always makes her thing of Animorphs, and so we all had a good laugh about it.

Except it got me thinking - what about animorphemes? You know, morphemes that refer to animals?

I started to name off animorphemes from the top of my head (well, just the one - ichthyo), but everyone else made fun of me enough that I stopped. But in my head, I kept going. Here's the list I have so far:

ichthyo-
ornitho-
apio-
malaco-
primato-
ceto-
arachno-
entomo-
herpeto-
myrmeco-
plankto-


Further additions are always accepted, but I think this is a pretty solid list. Heh. Animorphemes.

3 comments:

Katya said...

I've never heard of "morphs." Must be some newfangled thing.

Audrey said...

I'm going to pretend I know what you're talking about.

Redoubt said...

Ah, Animorphs. The biblical series of my youth.