Something lighthearted
Mar. 30th, 2012 10:22 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
If aliens lived among us with their own languages and art and philosophies, would we still call the study of such the ‘humanities’?
And
I came across a new word while reading Timeless by Gail Carriger (which I heartily recommend - but start with Soulless, which is book 1): Connubial
My daughter says it sounds vaguely dirt and vaguely Lovecraftian as in the: The connubial creature rises from the deep.
And I thought it sounded Egyptian, like something about Annubis.
But it really means: adj of or relating to the married state and of marriage or wedlock; matrimonial; conjugal: connubial love
The nouns are connubialism and connubiality. I really like the word connubiality. Steven and Seth lived in happy connubiality. But connubialism just sounds like one of those -isms you should stay away from.
And
I came across a new word while reading Timeless by Gail Carriger (which I heartily recommend - but start with Soulless, which is book 1): Connubial
My daughter says it sounds vaguely dirt and vaguely Lovecraftian as in the: The connubial creature rises from the deep.
And I thought it sounded Egyptian, like something about Annubis.
But it really means: adj of or relating to the married state and of marriage or wedlock; matrimonial; conjugal: connubial love
The nouns are connubialism and connubiality. I really like the word connubiality. Steven and Seth lived in happy connubiality. But connubialism just sounds like one of those -isms you should stay away from.