the fallacy of modernity [was RE: chiclassiccomp.org was Re: Mysterious website]

[Rich Alderson]

> 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