Fwd: grammatology: Dictionary.com Word of the Day

[Dave Monroe]

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Date: Wed, 24 Jul 2013 00:00:03 -0700
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Word of the Day for Wednesday, July 24, 2013

grammatology \gram-uh-TOL-uh-jee\, noun:

the scientific study of systems of writing.

 "...He can figure out the surface of a cube and of a sphere, he's
 studied grammatology and stroboscopy, he has beautiful books in
 his library,” I explained all in one breath.
 -- Emmanuel Dongala, Maria Louise Ascher, Johnny Mad Dog, 2007

 "She was never in Troy," says one version of the myth, meeting,
 imaging in this negation the metaphysics or grammatology of
 absence implicit in optatives of the verb.
 -- George Steiner, Antigones, 1996

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Grammatology was coined in the 1950s from Greek roots, the root
grámma meaning "letter" and -ology, a combining form used in the
names of sciences or bodies of knowledge.

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