Postactive?

[nq:1]I'm looking for a word to describe a modification made to give an appearance of continuity. For example, after the ... Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark" to make the trilogy seem planned. How should I describe this renaming?[/nq]
"Retronym" seems to have some currency to describe terms like this. Another example would be "analogue TV".
Matti

[nq:1]I'm looking for a word to describe a modification made to give an appearance of continuity. For example, after the ... Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark" to make the trilogy seem planned. How should I describe this renaming?[/nq]
"Retronym" seems to have some currency to describe terms like this. Another example would be "analogue TV".
Can that also describe the inclusion of an "

[nq:2]I'm looking for a word to describe a modification made ... the trilogy seem planned. How should I describe this renaming?[/nq]
[nq:1]:"Retronym" seems to have some currency to describe terms like this. :Another example would be "analogue TV". Can that also describe the inclusion of an "s" into "iland" to make is look related to "isla"?[/nq]
No a different mechanism is involved there,

[nq:2]Can that also describe the inclusion of an "s" into "iland" to make is look related to "isla"?[/nq]
[nq:1]No a different mechanism is involved there, one of mistaken etymology. A retronym is required when a new development means that a more specific or extended term is required for a thing.[/nq]
"World War I" strikes me as a pretty good example of a retronym.

Cheers, Harvey

[nq:1]Matti Lamprhey wrote[/nq]
[nq:2] A retronym is required when a new development means that a more specific or extended term is required for a thing.[/nq]
[nq:1]"World War I" strikes me as a pretty good example of a retronym.[/nq]
Yes. Also known by some as "the war to end all wars", and by others as "the war that ended up starting the next one".
Matti

[nq:2]Matti Lamprhey wrote "World War I" strikes me as a pretty good example of a retronym.[/nq]
[nq:1]Yes. Also known by some as "the war to end all wars", and by others as "the war that ended up starting the next one".[/nq]
I've long been convinced that future historians will not view these as two wars, but as a 30-year war which had two major outbreaks and an intervening period of uneas

"Retronym" isn't suitable for either example, given the definition. Pretend the S was inserted into "iland" deliberately what would that be? Can the same word be used to describe the Indiana Jones renaming? ~Iain

[nq:1]On 05 Jan 2005, Matti Lamprhey wrote[/nq]
[nq:2]No a different mechanism is involved there, one of ... more specific or extended term is required for a thing.[/nq]
[nq:1]"World War I" strikes me as a pretty good example of a retronym.[/nq]
I suppose all monarchs' titles are subject to revision when a second one of the same name comes along. If we get another Stephen then "Stephen

[nq:1]On 06 Jan 2005, Matti Lamprhey wrote[/nq]
[nq:2]Yes. Also known by some as "the war to end all wars", and by others as "the war that ended up starting the next one".[/nq]
[nq:1]I've long been convinced that future historians will not view these as two wars, but as a 30-year war which ... the "Hundred Years War", which wasn't a century of unbroken battlefield encounters but was later

[nq:2]:"Retronym" seems to have some currency to describe terms like ... "s" into "iland" to make is look related to "isla"?[/nq]
[nq:1]No a different mechanism is involved there, one of mistaken etymology. A retronym is required when a new development means that a more specific or extended term is required for a thing.[/nq]
Typically, retronyms have been used to adapt an existing term in