word definition please.
jane doe
I apologise if there's an answer to this that I've missed.
Having said that, I'm going mad trying to find out what
'panupunitoplasty' is!
So, is it real, made up, obscure, obsolete, what?
Rhiannon S
>From: jane doe bigtr...@little.china.com
>Date: 14/09/2003 12:26 GMT Daylight Time
>Message-id: <dvj8mv82198f5r7kh...@4ax.com>
I'm glad I wasn't the only one baffled by this. After much intensive research
I've come to the tentative conclusion it's something you do with slood using
fingles.
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When I did a Google search I came across this site
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jane doe
>> I apologise if there's an answer to this that I've missed.
>>
>> Having said that, I'm going mad trying to find out what
>> 'panupunitoplasty' is!
>>
>> So, is it real, made up, obscure, obsolete, what?
>>
>When I did a Google search I came across this site
>with some great quizzes on Terry's and other books
>
>http://www.wotmania.com/otherfantasyquizzes.asp
>
>Steve (Steeljam) *BF DAcFD (UU) *
> Resident Opsimath in Redivivus Studies
Which doesn't give the definition of the word I'm afraid.
Fliss
grahamafforda...@hotmail.com
On Sun, 14 Sep 2003 19:26:41 +0800, jane doe
<bigtr...@little.china.com> wrote:
>Having said that, I'm going mad trying to find out what
>'panupunitoplasty' is!
It's a made up word that comes from TLH.
Having a look at the Latin and Greek style roots:
Pan - All or every
U - No (as in Utopia - no place)
Punito - Possibly related to punishment.
Plasty - Indicating plastic surgery (eg Rhinoplasty a nose job)
So it might be read as forbidding everyone from chopping off body
parts for punishment, but frankly I think it's just a meaningless word
that sounds good.
Cheers,
Graham.
Daibhid Ceannaideach
>Date: 14/09/03 12:26 GMT Daylight Time
>Message-id: <dvj8mv82198f5r7kh...@4ax.com>
>
>
Made up. It has been suggested it's kneading dough (panu- from panis meaning
bread, -punito- from punitive meaning rough treatment and -plasty meaning
shaping).
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Something to do with "Wheel of Time."
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>>Subject: word definition please.
>>From: jane doe bigtr...@little.china.com
>>Date: 14/09/2003 12:26 GMT Daylight Time
>>Message-id: <dvj8mv82198f5r7kh...@4ax.com>
>>
>>
>>I apologise if there's an answer to this that I've missed.
>>
>>Having said that, I'm going mad trying to find out what
>>'panupunitoplasty' is!
>>
>>So, is it real, made up, obscure, obsolete, what?
>>
>>
>>
>
>
> I'm glad I wasn't the only one baffled by this. After much intensive research
> I've come to the tentative conclusion it's something you do with slood using
> fingles.
Sounds to me like doglatin for punching the crap out of a loaf of bread.
Rocky Frisco
>>From: jane doe bigtr...@little.china.com
>>Date: 14/09/03 12:26 GMT Daylight Time
>>Message-id: <dvj8mv82198f5r7kh...@4ax.com>
>>
>>
>>I apologise if there's an answer to this that I've missed.
>>
>>Having said that, I'm going mad trying to find out what
>>'panupunitoplasty' is!
>>
>>So, is it real, made up, obscure, obsolete, what?
>
>
> Made up. It has been suggested it's kneading dough (panu- from panis meaning
> bread, -punito- from punitive meaning rough treatment and -plasty meaning
> shaping).
There, see! It's about me after all.
I always knead dough.
jane doe
<chuckle> I like this.
It's either banning plastic surgery (unlikely on Discworld), or
banning the rough kneading of bread.
Made up it may be, but I'll have to memorise it and use it in
conversation with the boss. It'll torture him for days when he can't
find out what I mean.
Fliss, being gleefully evil about this.
Robert Carnegie
Frisco <ro...@rocky-frisco.com> writes
>jane doe wrote:
>
>> I apologise if there's an answer to this that I've missed.
>>
>> Having said that, I'm going mad trying to find out what
>> 'panupunitoplasty' is!
>>
>> So, is it real, made up, obscure, obsolete, what?
>
>Something to do with "Wheel of Time."
>
>The site with the word is: http://www.wotmania.com
Allegedly the last book in the "Wheel of Time" series has a
glossary in the back :-)
(But it's possible that it has not been alleged until now -
I made it up.)
Robert Carnegie at home, rja.ca...@excite.com at large
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Suzi
alt.fan.pratchett, Daibhid Ceannaideach <daibhidc...@aol.com>
wibbled...
> >From: jane doe bigtr...@little.china.com
> >
> >I apologise if there's an answer to this that I've missed.
> >
> >Having said that, I'm going mad trying to find out what
> >'panupunitoplasty' is!
> >
> >So, is it real, made up, obscure, obsolete, what?
>
> Made up. It has been suggested it's kneading dough (panu- from panis meaning
> bread, -punito- from punitive meaning rough treatment and -plasty meaning
> shaping).
How about it being 'pan' meaning many/all (as in 'pantheist'), and
'pun..' meaning, well, puns, and plasty meaning ending up in a cast -
giving a meaning of many puns puts you in a cast? Seems just as likely
for discworld to me.
Suzi
Gid Holyoake
generously decided to share with us..
> Rhiannon S wrote:
>
> >>Subject: word definition please.
> >>From: jane doe bigtr...@little.china.com
> >>Date: 14/09/2003 12:26 GMT Daylight Time
> >>Message-id: <dvj8mv82198f5r7kh...@4ax.com>
> >>
> >>
> >>I apologise if there's an answer to this that I've missed.
> >>
> >>Having said that, I'm going mad trying to find out what
> >>'panupunitoplasty' is!
> >>
> >>So, is it real, made up, obscure, obsolete, what?
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >
> >
> > I'm glad I wasn't the only one baffled by this. After much intensive research
> > I've come to the tentative conclusion it's something you do with slood using
> > fingles.
>
> Sounds to me like doglatin for punching the crap out of a loaf of bread.
I thought it was the surgical insertion of puns at all appropriate
places..
Gid