Anonymous Posted 19 years ago
Vocabulary
Pollution/evolution - the break down of...
0 Hello everyone, this is my first post so quick introduction... 02 br
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00 My name's Mark Augias and I am a graphic/web designer. The reason I come to you all for help today is that I’m about to start a new series of illustrations and I’m muddling with what to call them. 02 br
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00 The idea is to illustrate natural growth taking over our cityscapes instead of the grimy pollutants we see everyday. This is where I need your help... I wanted to call the series 'pro-lution' (a mash up of evolution and pollution with the word 'pro' in it to emphasize that we should be active in helping nature take over the city). I wanted to check where the 'lution' comes from and what it brings to the meaning of pol'lution' and evo'lution'. for all I know it could relate to the nazi's and I don't want to be shouting that in the streets! 02 br
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00 Any help will be very much appreciated. 02 br
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00 All the best, 02 br
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00 Mark Augias. 0-
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00 My name's Mark Augias and I am a graphic/web designer. The reason I come to you all for help today is that I’m about to start a new series of illustrations and I’m muddling with what to call them. 02 br
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00 The idea is to illustrate natural growth taking over our cityscapes instead of the grimy pollutants we see everyday. This is where I need your help... I wanted to call the series 'pro-lution' (a mash up of evolution and pollution with the word 'pro' in it to emphasize that we should be active in helping nature take over the city). I wanted to check where the 'lution' comes from and what it brings to the meaning of pol'lution' and evo'lution'. for all I know it could relate to the nazi's and I don't want to be shouting that in the streets! 02 br
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00 Any help will be very much appreciated. 02 br
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00 All the best, 02 br
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00 Mark Augias. 0-
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0 The words pollution and evolution come from different sources. 0-
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0 The words pollution and evolution come from different sources. 02 br
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01 b 00 Evol- 02 b 00 ution derives from "evolve" from Latin 01 i 00 evolvere 02 i 00 ‘unrolling’ 02 br
01 b 00 Poll- 02 b 00 ution derives from "pollute" from Latin 01 i 00 polluere 02 i 00 ‘pollute, defile’. 02 br
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01 b 00 Evol- 02 b 00 ution derives from "evolve" from Latin 01 i 00 evolvere 02 i 00 ‘unrolling’ 02 br
01 b 00 Poll- 02 b 00 ution derives from "pollute" from Latin 01 i 00 polluere 02 i 00 ‘pollute, defile’. 02 br
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0 And just for completeness, there is no apostrophe in "*****". We form the plural simply by adding an "s". An apostrophe reduces the word to its singular possessive case. 0-
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00 My name's Mark Augias and I am a graphic/web designer. 11 b 12 br
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12 b 10 OT: is "my name's" correct? It doesn't sound good to me... 12 br
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10 However, I don't like 'pro-lution' very much because it let me think to "pro-pollution"... and I can't get evolution since you took off the actual radix o
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0 OT: is "my name's" correct? Yes >>>contracted form of "My name is" 0-
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