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From: Andreas Johansson <[log in to unmask]> > Quoting Costentin Cornomorus <[log in to unmask]>: > > >Just doesn't say it > > > aloud > > > for fear of seeming too "heathen" and > > > "Asia-centric" > > > > Well, I'm not sure how much worse/more strongly > > put his Asiacentrism can be. > > I'm a native speaker of neither Latin nor English, but I'd > expected "asiocentric". Am I wrong, and, if yes, why? For me, Padraic's "Asiacentrism" is grammatically a compound word, which I would probably spell "Asia-centrism". In contrast, "Asiocentrism" (which in the standard needs capitalization) is formed from the bound morph _Asi-_ 'Asia'. There are thus two morphological processes that are assigned to the same basic lexical meaning. ========================================================================= Thomas Wier "I find it useful to meet my subjects personally, Dept. of Linguistics because our secret police don't get it right University of Chicago half the time." -- octogenarian Sheikh Zayed of 1010 E. 59th Street Abu Dhabi, to a French reporter. Chicago, IL 60637