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Acopia
As a student nurse for some reason I was given some advice in the week to write â??acopiaâ?? in preference for â??not copingâ??, and I really cannot see why - it seems to be simply making up jargon for the sake of it. I can only find a couple of journal articles that appear to be in favour of acopiaâ??s use, Block in Nursing Standard in 2003 quite eloquently explained how adding the prefix a- to a â??Latinisedâ?? form of cope made a word to fit a situation where â??a single, succinct medical word does not existâ?, advocating use of â??Greekâ?? and â??Latinâ?? terms, along with abbreviations and acronyms because they are correct and succinct, whilst I can understand succinct as a reason for many terms, as for being more correct CPR is no more correct than cardiopulmonary resuscitation, nocte is no more correct than night, and really acopia is no more correct, or hardly any more succinct than â??not copingâ??, especially if one has to spend time explaining what it means.â?¨As King wrote in a letter to Nursing Standard in 2004 in response to Block â??Acopia is the name of a town in Peru and the name of a company but it is not a scientific termâ?
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acopiaâ?? in preference ... [/nq] Since "copia" is Latin for "plenitude", "acopia" - if it exists at all - must mean "non-abundance".
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[nq:1]As a student nurse for some reason I was given some advice in the week to write â??acopiaâ?? in preference ... of a town in Peru and the name of a company but it is not a scientific termâ? Comments please![/nq]
Since "copia" is Latin for "plenitude", "acopia" - if it exists at all - must mean "non-abundance". This has no direct connection with coping or not coping and using the word thu
Since "copia" is Latin for "plenitude", "acopia" - if it exists at all - must mean "non-abundance". This has no direct connection with coping or not coping and using the word thu
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[nq:1]As a student nurse for some reason I was given some advice in the week to write 'acopia' in preference ... of a town in Peru and the name of a company but it is not a scientific term" Comments please![/nq]
It's horrible. The only justification for graecolatinification is that it provides a useful supply of scientific and technical words which don't depend on the language used in any part
It's horrible. The only justification for graecolatinification is that it provides a useful supply of scientific and technical words which don't depend on the language used in any part
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[nq:1]"Acopia is the name of a town in Peru and the name of a company but it is not a scientific term"[/nq]
Having seen that "X is a town in Y" construction so often as part of a joke, I was vastly entertained to discover Acopia really *is* a town in Peru. And as a medical term, it's pure bollox. 99 times out of a hundred when you use it, you're going to have to explain it. Which makes it poin
Having seen that "X is a town in Y" construction so often as part of a joke, I was vastly entertained to discover Acopia really *is* a town in Peru. And as a medical term, it's pure bollox. 99 times out of a hundred when you use it, you're going to have to explain it. Which makes it poin
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[nq:2]As a student nurse for some reason I was given ... company but it is not a scientific term" Comments please![/nq]
[nq:1]It's horrible. The only justification for graecolatinification is that it provides a useful supply of scientific and technical words which ... Posted via a free Usenet account fromhttp://www.teranews.com
[nq:1]It's horrible. The only justification for graecolatinification is that it provides a useful supply of scientific and technical words which ... Posted via a free Usenet account fromhttp://www.teranews.com
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[nq:2]"Acopia is the name of a town in Peru and the name of a company but it is not a scientific term"[/nq]
[nq:1]Having seen that "X is a town in Y" construction so often as part of a jo=ke, I was vastly ... they should. Inventing mock-La=tin words isn't going to help. Time for the proponents to fornicare absentiae. John Dean Oxford[/nq]
Ahem! What's Latin got to do with it? The 'a' prefi
[nq:1]Having seen that "X is a town in Y" construction so often as part of a jo=ke, I was vastly ... they should. Inventing mock-La=tin words isn't going to help. Time for the proponents to fornicare absentiae. John Dean Oxford[/nq]
Ahem! What's Latin got to do with it? The 'a' prefi
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re: acopia for "not coping"
[nq:1]It's horrible. The only justification for graecolatinification is that it provides a useful supply of scientific and technical words which don't depend on the language used in any particular country.[/nq]
I agree entirely.
But (there's always a but, isn't there...) is there not a case for avoiding compound "not X" constructions in diagnostic terminolog
[nq:1]It's horrible. The only justification for graecolatinification is that it provides a useful supply of scientific and technical words which don't depend on the language used in any particular country.[/nq]
I agree entirely.
But (there's always a but, isn't there...) is there not a case for avoiding compound "not X" constructions in diagnostic terminolog
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[nq:1]Ahem! What's Latin got to do with it? The 'a' prefix should have alerted everyone to the fact that, like ... sound the same as "cope" is entirely coincidental, that word having come from the French 'couper' via the Greek kolaphos.[/nq]
An elegant piece of special pleading, vitiated only by the unfortunate circumstance that the Greek word akopia doesn't mean that. As I mentioned yesterday
An elegant piece of special pleading, vitiated only by the unfortunate circumstance that the Greek word akopia doesn't mean that. As I mentioned yesterday
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[nq:2]Having seen that "X is a town in Y" construction ... going to help. Time for the proponents to fornicare absentiae.[/nq]
[nq:1]Ahem! What's Latin got to do with it?[/nq]
Double cough and raise you a sneeze. The OP quoted: "Block in Nursing Standard in 2003 quite eloquently explained how adding the prefix a- to a 'Latinised' form of cope made a word to fit a situation "
Still, if
[nq:1]Ahem! What's Latin got to do with it?[/nq]
Double cough and raise you a sneeze. The OP quoted: "Block in Nursing Standard in 2003 quite eloquently explained how adding the prefix a- to a 'Latinised' form of cope made a word to fit a situation "
Still, if
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[nq:2]Ahem! What's Latin got to do with it?[/nq]
[nq:1]Double cough and raise you a sneeze. The OP quoted: "Block in Nursing Standard in 2003 quite eloquently explained how ... this would =be a less interesting place. John Dean Oxford- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text -[/nq]
I'll throw in a splutter and suggest, given that the word makes perfect sense as Greek, that is aetiology after
[nq:1]Double cough and raise you a sneeze. The OP quoted: "Block in Nursing Standard in 2003 quite eloquently explained how ... this would =be a less interesting place. John Dean Oxford- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text -[/nq]
I'll throw in a splutter and suggest, given that the word makes perfect sense as Greek, that is aetiology after
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