29 Jun
2009
29 Jun
'09
4:57 p.m.
From: Ethan Dicks
Sent: Monday, June 29, 2009 11:13 AM
On 6/29/09, Rich Alderson <RichA at vulcan.com>
wrote:
>> Besides the obvious modern dirty meaning of the word, there is another.
> ??????
I was meaning the modern use of the word to refer not
merely to "dung"
but as slang for coprophilia, which is how the word has been used
widely on the internet in recent years.
OK, I'm unfamiliar with that usage, and leapt to the wrong conclusion.
> The use of the word "scat" to mean
"ordure, dung" goes back several
> centuries. It is a learned borrowing, from the ancient Greek _skOr_,
> _skatos_,[1] of the same meaning
Yes. I've taken ancient Greek and
read/write/speak modern Greek. The
word is still in use on the streets of Greece in a recognizable form.
In point of fact, weren't you one of the advocates (along with me) for
the original sci.classics (which later became humanities.classics, but
that's a story for another day)? I was explaining for the *non*-classicists
among us.
Rich