IVIV (1) Near the Airport

[Mark Kohut]

Although I didn't take notes, I saw two stewardii together, as woman chums often do things, rather than two discrete stewardesses when they were separate.....

--- On Fri, 8/28/09, James Kyllo <jkyllo at gmail.com> wrote:

> From: James Kyllo <jkyllo at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: IVIV (1) Near the Airport
> To: "David Morris" <fqmorris at gmail.com>
> Cc: "John Carvill" <johncarvill at gmail.com>, "Dave Monroe" <against.the.dave at gmail.com>, "pynchon -l" <pynchon-l at waste.org>
> Date: Friday, August 28, 2009, 4:34 PM
> Really, you think so?  I just
> think it something some people do,
> almost for amusement.  (Cos I do.. try to use the
> correct Latin/Greek
> plurals even if many don't.  More like pedantry than
> incorrectitude.
> (Hadn't ever considered stewardii et al, but may now...)
> 
> 
> On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 9:29 PM, David Morris<fqmorris at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > Maybe so, but stewardi is an attempt to be even more
> politically
> > incorrect (today's standards) than stewardesses.  It
> sort of makes
> > them sound like a species.
> >
> 
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