June 9, 2006
By Order of the Duce
At the Keilholtzian Fascist Institute of Language we have decided to make some changes:
1. The word "homo" just has too many bad connotations. The Duce proposed renaming the species Hetero sapiens. It was then proposed that Ortho would be better, so the Duce endorsed Ortho sapiens as the new name for our species.
2. The word homogenized can stay the same for now.
3. The term for one who holds bad doctrine shall be changed to Homodox, which, in this day and age, seems appropriate.
4. A general call for other areas where Greek and Latin roots cause confusion was issued by the Duce, who would love to wreak further havoc on the language by standardizing them in strange ways that cut through the confusion by laying their own level of confusion over them!
Posted by erik at June 9, 2006 10:13 AM"2. The word homogenized can stay the same for now."
Ha! You've obviously not been to Canada, where "whole" milk is labeled (in big letters) "HOMO MILK" - from a more innocent time.
Posted by: Meg Q at June 9, 2006 2:04 PM