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dri_ft | 1 year ago

I was just working on a comment featuring the word oikophilic when I had to go to bed, so it's nice to see that one managed to get written anyway.

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aebtebeten|1 year ago

Sleep well; happy to hear from you tomorrow!

(note that it's not always easy being parochially oikophilic if your sympatriots[0] sometimes say things like "no, where are you really from?". Oἶκος strictly speaking referred to the family[1]; some people consider their οἶκος[2] to be less, others, more, inclusive)

[0] did latin pick up patria from greek or are they cognate?

[1] so pedantically "home ec" should be unmarked and "national economy" the marked term.

[2] presumably "kith and kin" is not redundant; which class is larger?

> Men are cruel, but man is kind —RT

Lagniappe: https://xkcd.com/2608/