It was clear to me from the beginning that it likely was a case of Generalizing From Few Examples (“[My test subjects and I don’t like alcohol, therefore] nobody actually likes alcohol, and if you claim you do you’re a liar!”), but I tried to keeping on reading. I had to stop at
(And FYI, that’s the proper spelling: extrovert is common but wrong, because extra- is the proper Latin prefix.)
No, etymology has little to do with whether a spelling is ‘wrong’. Extrovert it is the far more common spelling even in formal, edited prose (25 hits in the “Academic” section of the British National Corpus for extrover* vs 3 for extraver*) and it is the first spelling in plenty of major dictionaries. (Not to mention that the Italian word for that also has an O in the middle, so the alteration from the “proper Latin prefix” didn’t even originally occur in English, unless the Italian word is re-borrowed from English.)
As for me, I prefer group brainstorming for certain tasks and individual brainstorming for other tasks.
I still like extravert, personally, because all the other english words which borrow that latin root are spelled with an “a”...extra...extraordinary, extraterrestrial, extravagant, extraneous.
For some reason, when I hear “extrovert” I picture someone who enjoys socializing, whereas when I hear “extravert” I picture someone who “turns outwards” and seeks external stimulation—as the latin roots dictate. This is probably because I first read “extrovert” in popular usage, and first read “extravert” in reference to Jungian typology, and the two definitions are slightly different.
I suppose making English consistent is a lost cause though, and I ought to just give up.
Alas, “homosexual” — like “polyamory”, “microgravity”, “electroconduction”, and “mammogram” — is a Greek-Latin compound.
(“Homophile” was current once, but no longer; “polyphilia” is sometimes reported, “multiamory” not so much; “microbaricity” would imply vacuum rather than freefall; “anbaroconduction” unreported outside certain fantasy universes; and a “mammoscript” sounds like the upstairs equivalent of a Vagina Monologue.)
It was clear to me from the beginning that it likely was a case of Generalizing From Few Examples (“[My test subjects and I don’t like alcohol, therefore] nobody actually likes alcohol, and if you claim you do you’re a liar!”), but I tried to keeping on reading. I had to stop at
No, etymology has little to do with whether a spelling is ‘wrong’. Extrovert it is the far more common spelling even in formal, edited prose (25 hits in the “Academic” section of the British National Corpus for
extrover*vs 3 forextraver*) and it is the first spelling in plenty of major dictionaries. (Not to mention that the Italian word for that also has an O in the middle, so the alteration from the “proper Latin prefix” didn’t even originally occur in English, unless the Italian word is re-borrowed from English.)As for me, I prefer group brainstorming for certain tasks and individual brainstorming for other tasks.
I still like extravert, personally, because all the other english words which borrow that latin root are spelled with an “a”...extra...extraordinary, extraterrestrial, extravagant, extraneous.
For some reason, when I hear “extrovert” I picture someone who enjoys socializing, whereas when I hear “extravert” I picture someone who “turns outwards” and seeks external stimulation—as the latin roots dictate. This is probably because I first read “extrovert” in popular usage, and first read “extravert” in reference to Jungian typology, and the two definitions are slightly different.
I suppose making English consistent is a lost cause though, and I ought to just give up.
(And FYI, that’s the proper spelling: “homosexual” is common but wrong, because omo- is the proper Greek prefix.)
Cute.
Alas, “homosexual” — like “polyamory”, “microgravity”, “electroconduction”, and “mammogram” — is a Greek-Latin compound.
(“Homophile” was current once, but no longer; “polyphilia” is sometimes reported, “multiamory” not so much; “microbaricity” would imply vacuum rather than freefall; “anbaroconduction” unreported outside certain fantasy universes; and a “mammoscript” sounds like the upstairs equivalent of a Vagina Monologue.)
Mammoscript.
ομο-
No, it is ὁμός, which is properly transliterated homos.