IMIPOLEX

[calbert at tiac.net]

David Morris:

> Don't have access to OED (damn), but if "imi" isn't _really_ a prefix,
> what is it?  If it's not really a part of speech, how can it have
> other than an imagined "function?"  "Imigrate" doesn't imply
> replication, does it?

I'll still love you, but it is "iMMigrate"......and I'll be the first to admit 
that my spelling kinda sucks.......

> "Im," though, is a prefix, the one used in both "imitate" and
> "imigrate."

no, "im" is NOT identified as a prefix in either Webster's Unabridged 
or the OED.....but when you do get your hands on one, check out 
the high correspondence between words starting with "im" (not 
followed by a second 'm') and the notion of copying or replicating.....

love,
cfa, who has spent some time "immigrating"

> > > calbert wrote:
> > >
> > > If this is indeed a "free day", how about this in support of
> > > MalignD?
> > >
> > > Why is it IMI-polex?
> > >
> > > Spent a little time with the OED over that yesterday.......there
> > > is a little of the obvious with a dash of the unlikely......
> > >
> > > Imi isn't really a prefix, but functions a little like one. 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%.
> 
> 
> 
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