IMIPOLEX

[calbert at tiac.net]

Not to be a bitch about it, but.....

David Simpson:
 
> Huh? This is a crock. First of all, no way "imi" is a prefix.

me:

> > Imi isn't really a prefix, but functions a little like one. 

What's your beef?

It's
> > presence implies "replication" as in "imi-tate", and assuming that
> > the OED is exhaustive with respect to the possible uses, the
> > correspondence is nearly 100%.

I've just gone over the entries for words beginning with the 
component "imi" (this time WEBSTER'S UNABRIDGED) - with the 
exception of a group of chemical terms my observation holds........

 (BTW
> "imitate" comes from Gr. mimesis > as in "mime.")

WEBSTER'S does not concurr, it offers Latin roots, imitatus/ imitari. 
Mimesis, and related greek terms do indeed provide the root for 
mime and mimic. I will have to check the OED to see if the latin term 
has its roots in the greek one you offer, but I would think that 
WEBSTER's would have suggested as much.

 Maybe imipolex.com
> can help. My own guess is that imipolex is Pynchon's own playful
> invention 

I agree, its just that P rarely does things by happenstance.....His 
invention, though playful may be of deliberate design......

-- perhaps a stand-in for the actual name of some weird
> trademarked plastic -- silly putty?

I'd be all for such a resolution.....

love,
cfa



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