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On 06/18/13 09:06, Duncan wrote: |
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>> > What on earth is a "teoric fallacy"? |
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> My question too. Wictionary and google both appear to agree, however, |
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> that while "teoric" isn't English, it's Catalan (or Aranese/Occitan, the |
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> area is NE Spain into south France) for "theoretical", which it /is/ |
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> close enough sounding/spelling to, to make sense as having the same |
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> original root (which wikipedia traces to late Latin from ancient Greek). |
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> |
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> http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/te%C3%B2ric |
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near enough, it was an (unwanted) chimera between Italian and English |
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