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ancianita

(38,265 posts)
3. lol to some, maybe so. But it is considered the language of deepest & broadest human thought, which is why
Mon Sep 2, 2024, 10:12 AM
Sep 2

all of science worldwide publishes scientific findings in English.
The reason English is the most learned second language worldwide is also because it's the most polyglot of languages, made up of word roots from Greek, Latin, French, German, etc.

A root word, also known as a base word, is the word part that cannot be broken further down. Prefixes and suffixes can be added to root words to change their meanings. Prefixes are word parts that precede a root word, while suffixes are word parts that are added to the end of root words.

Etymology of denigrate:
"late Middle English (in the sense ‘blacken, make dark’):
-- from Latin denigrat- ‘blackened’,
-- from the verb denigrare,
-- from de- ‘away, completely’ + nigrare (from niger ‘black’)."

denigrate = to blacken the rep of, or 'case shade' on . That's a shady Vance thing.

ancianita

(38,265 posts)
6. lol... I worked for two years on a Mergenthaler linotype machine, with all the page/print commands,
Mon Sep 2, 2024, 10:51 AM
Sep 2

font installations, etc., that one does with that original speeding up of typeset. And on top of that I was a writer for the Chicago teachers' newspaper that worked that machine for each monthly edition.

I hear ya.

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