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Linguistics, monikers and language in general, Conversational tangents moved from elsewhere
Greg Hullender
post May 23 2010, 03:56 PM
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So you decided to go with "apohestion" instead of "aphestion"? The rule (in Greek) would be to use ap- instead of apo- before a vowel or an 'h'-plus-vowel. Note we have "aphelion" not "apohelion". But, on the other hand although "apapsis" is used, "apoapsis" is 12 times as common.

Not that it matters that much. Whatever the Dawn team decides to use in their publications will determine "correct" usage thereafter.

Ceres presents considerably more interesting naming challenges. Should the cererean periapsis called peridemetrion? :-)

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- Greg Hullender   Linguistics, monikers and language in general   May 23 2010, 03:56 PM
- - dmuller   QUOTE (Greg Hullender @ May 24 2010, 01:5...   May 24 2010, 02:14 AM
- - djellison   http://lmgtfy.com/?q=society+of+literary+pedants ...   May 24 2010, 02:40 AM
- - Greg Hullender   As a linguist, I'm much more interested in stu...   May 24 2010, 08:07 PM
|- - stevesliva   Did anyone double-check the Greek (or is it Grecia...   May 24 2010, 08:50 PM
|- - Vultur   QUOTE (stevesliva @ May 24 2010, 08:50 PM...   May 25 2010, 05:42 AM
|- - Greg Hullender   QUOTE (Vultur @ May 24 2010, 09:42 PM) Th...   May 26 2010, 09:34 PM
- - Explorer1   The only time I ever wonder about these linguistic...   May 24 2010, 09:38 PM
- - Hungry4info   How does "Titanese" sound to you?   May 25 2010, 03:25 AM
- - Explorer1   Maybe rename Titania? It would need to be Shakespe...   May 25 2010, 06:30 AM
- - nprev   Yes, there are; in fact, the IAU is the sole inter...   May 25 2010, 06:34 AM
- - Phil Stooke   Aaaargh! This is like the -ology argument... ...   May 25 2010, 11:29 AM
|- - stevesliva   QUOTE (Phil Stooke @ May 25 2010, 07:29 A...   May 26 2010, 04:42 AM
|- - centsworth_II   QUOTE (Phil Stooke @ May 25 2010, 07:29 A...   May 26 2010, 07:09 AM
- - djellison   "Aaaargh" I endorse that message, and c...   May 25 2010, 01:09 PM
- - ElkGroveDan   Here   May 26 2010, 05:01 AM
- - nprev   Hear, hear!!!   May 26 2010, 05:24 AM

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