OTI:notes:8/3/19

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Onomasiology

Notes: Game on...on the radio...Angels and Indians...Upton up...Ohtani on second, Fletcher on third..."Angels trying to get some runs"...top of sixth...Indians 5-0...I've been trying to wrap my thoughts around the back-formation linguistic term, and the related term Ononmasiology...and, and I was watching a Nat Geo clip of a srange fish, and listening, and then reading the comments, I thought, 'oh, that's a back-formation/onomasiolog...or some such...I dunno...I may have it all wrong...sac fly brings in run...Indians 5-1...Angels made out...to bottom of sixth...

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Watch "Scientists' Hilarious Reaction to Bizarre Deep-Sea Fish | National Geographic" on YouTube
https://youtu.be/u7QXdlSBGGY

Scientists in movies: "Ah yes, from its form and this depth range I can discern with 67% accuracy that this is a specimen of eurypharynx pelecanoides, which belongs to an order closely related to-"
Actual scientists:  "It looks like a muppet!  Whaaaat look at its face!  It has googly eyes!!!"
OrdonWolf-9 months ago (edited)

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https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Onomasiology

Onomasiology (from Greek: ὀνομάζω (onomāzο)—to name, which in turn is from ὄνομα—name) is a branch of linguistics concerned with the question "how do you express X?" It is in fact most commonly understood as a branch of lexicology, the study of words (although some apply the term also to grammarand conversation).

Onomasiology, as a part of lexicology, starts from a concept which is taken to be prior[1] (i.e. an idea, an object, a quality, an activity etc.) and asks for its names. The opposite approach is known as semasiology: here one starts with a word and asks what it means, or what concepts the word refers to. Thus, an onomasiological question is, e.g., "what are the names for long, narrow pieces of potato that have been deep-fried?" (answers: french fries in the US, chips in the UK, etc.), while a semasiological question is, e.g., "what is the meaning of the term chips?" (answers: 'long, narrow pieces of potato that have been deep-fried' in the UK, 'slim slices of potatoes deep fried or baked until crisp' in the US).

Onomasiology can be carried out synchronically or diachronically, i.e. historically.

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One needs to see the clip!...the comment has like 25k likes...I need to do some more browsing to sort this out...post this from my tablet...bbk for score update...and more tomorrowmorrow...

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DavidDavid