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Skriven 2005-07-31 01:50:50 av Ardith Hinton (1:153/716.0)
     Kommentar till en text av James Bradley (1:134/77.0)
Ärende: Rules...  2Aii.
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Hi again, James!  Re who else posted this evening, see ENGLISH_TUTOR....  :-)))

AH>  I hadn't planned on learning medical terms such as
AH>  "thrombocytopenia".  Be careful what you wish for.
AH>  You just might get it.  ;-)

JB>  All I can fathom, is it must throb.


        Close, but no horseshoe!  "Thrombo-" has to do with clotting... you may
have seen it used in terms like "coronary thrombosis", commonly known as "heart
attack".  "Cytopenia" is a deficiency of one or more types of blood cells, e.g.
in leukemia where the proliferation of white blood cells may be so extreme that
other blood cells (including those needed for normal clotting) are crowded out.
Pain in the joints is symptomatic, but AFAIK it's not a throbbing pain....  :-/



JB>  I've gathered a paltry amount of Latin through plant,
JB>  and disease names mostly.


        Yes, there can be a bewildering variety of common names... and the same
common name is often applied to different things in different places.  :-)



JB>  When I hear a reporter try to stumble through "A
JB>  beneficial parasite that feeds..."


        It seems the days when reporters specialized are long gone.  I see many
articles in which an issue is clouded by attempts to simplify it too... (sigh).



JB>  I lost myself! Honest, I thought the comma was called...
JB>  That's my story, and I'm sticking to it. LOL!


        Another expression which Dallas & I also use, BTW... [grin].



JB>  <Falling to the floor, flopping about>


        Like a fish out of water, eh?  Nice use of metaphor....  :-)



JB>  What is a half an umlaut, now that we are on the target?


        You mean a single dot placed over a letter??  I don't know.  Apart from
the letter "i", of course, I've seen it only in dictionaries as a pronunciation
symbol indicating a short vowel.  There's a circle over a capital letter "A" in
my ASCII chart (ALT 143).  I wonder which language uses it... Ukrainian, maybe?



JB>  How about the French typical apostrophe that sits
JB>  above an "e" like an umlaut.


        If it looks like a peaked roof, as in "table d'h“te" (ALT 147), it is a
circumflex.  If it looks like half of a circumflex and goes upward from left to
right, as in "née" (ALT 130), it's an acute accent.  If it looks like half of a
circumflex and goes downward from left to right, as in "trŠs" and in "blessŠd",
(ALT 138) it's a grave accent.  I notice we're both using IBMPC 2, BTW....  ;-)



JB>  I'd *like* to know what I'm talking about, but so much is
JB>  forgotten as soon as I learn it these days. <Sha-G>


        I can relate.  Stress takes its toll... I noticed that when I was in my
twenties!  When one gets older there's so much stuff inside one's brain that it
may be difficult to retrieve sometimes as well.  I suspect you do remember what
is important to your personal survival, though.  When Nora was in treatment for
leukemia I often forgot what the grownups... who were quite capable of fetching
various items for themselves... had asked for.  But I never forgot to give Nora
her medications on time as prescribed, because her life depended on it....  :-)



JB>  I'll stay to keep an eye on ya! <ROTF!>


        Delighted to hear it!!  You're doing fine.  Hang in there... [chuckle].




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