Mitochondria

At 21:05:40 on Wed, 3 Nov 2004, Sergio Martone
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[nq:1]Mitochondria. Now there's a word.[/nq]
Yes. Now there's another.

Molly Mockford
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[nq:1]Mitochondria. Now there's a word.[/nq]
There is indeed! The singular is 'mitochondrion'.
John Briggs

[nq:1]Mitochondria. Now there's a word.[/nq]
Better than a word, they keep you and all other animals alive.

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[nq:1]Mitochondria. Now there's a word.[/nq]
Huh. Call that a word? Here are some serious words. Crapulous, scatology, threnody, chalybeate, peregrination. They don't make words like they used to.
I learned the other day that nearly every word in English that ends in "-ation" is almost identical in Spanish. So suddenly I've acquired a large Spanish vocabulary with zero effort. With luck it

[nq:2]Mitochondria. Now there's a word.[/nq]
[nq:1]Huh. Call that a word? Here are some serious words. Crapulous, scatology, threnody, chalybeate, peregrination. They don't make words like they used to.[/nq]
Oh Yes they do ;-)
See Moby words at:
http://www.dcs.shef.ac.uk/research/ilash/Moby/

[nq:1]I learned the other day that nearly every word in English that ends in "-ation" is almost identical in Spanish. ... with zero effort. With luck it will help me to go for a peregrination across that nation without... erm... discombobulation.[/nq]
From http://www.rae.es/:

On Friday, in article

[nq:1]I learned the other day that nearly every word in English that ends in "-ation" is almost identical in Spanish. ... with zero effort. With luck it will help me to go for a peregrination across that nation without... erm... discombobulation.[/nq]
Save that in Spanish the words mostly appear with the ending -ación; remember too that (in Spain, at least) the S

}On Fri, 05 Nov 2004 11:28:36 +00, Phil C.

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}> I learned the other day that nearly every word in English that ends in }> "-ation" is almost identical in Spanish. So suddenly I've acquired a }> large Spanish vocabulary with zero effort. With luck it will help me }> to go for a peregrination across that nation without... erm... }> discombobulation.
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[nq:2]From http://www.rae.es/: La palabra "discombobulacion" no est en el Diccionario.[/nq]
[nq:1]Well *** me gently Giles, the Spanish are such hicks.[/nq]
Try the same thing the other way from Portuguese and you find that English lacks the word "plastification".
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[nq:2]Well *** me gently Giles, the Spanish are such hicks.[/nq]
[nq:1]Try the same thing the other way from Portuguese and you find that English lacks the word "plastification".[/nq]
Perfectly valid English word. Google gives several hundred hits for "plastification" in English. I have personally heard it used.

Dave F