Mnemonics/pneumonics
Rupert Moss-Eccardt
remember things. I have recently come across 'pneumonics' which appear
to be the same thing.
Is the latter just a new way of spelling the former? Is it just an error
that is gaining currency? Can anyone explain?
Stuart Moore
A quick google seems to show it happens on medical sites, where it's
presumably a pun on pneumonia (sp?) - but I can believe some people
don't know they're getting it wrong.
Stuart
Sam Holloway
The OED doesn't have it. For pneumonic, it has (and I paraphrase):
1) an adjective "pertaining to the lungs"
2) an adjective "pertaining to pneumonia"
3) a noun : a) "a person affected with lung disease", b) "a remedy for
lung-disease"
It says form 3a) is obsolete and 3b) is rare.
I guess what you're seeing, then, is either an error gaining favour,
or some wry joke that I don't get. :-)
Sam
Mike Playle
> When I was younger I learnt about 'mnemonics' as a technique to help
> remember things. I have recently come across 'pneumonics' which appear
> to be the same thing.
Mnemonics for airheads?
Theo Markettos
> The OED doesn't have it. For pneumonic, it has (and I paraphrase):
>
> I guess what you're seeing, then, is either an error gaining favour,
> or some wry joke that I don't get. :-)
I'd agree. The root Greek words are:
i mnimi (memory, mind, recollection)
i pneuma (wind, soul, spirit) - pronounced 'pnevma' in Modern Greek
Tenuous link - my Modern Greek dictionary defines pneumatikos as spiritual,
intellectual, mental, pneumatic. But I think it's far more likely to be a
mistake.
Theo
Gropius Riftwynde
<theom...@chiark.greenend.org.uk> wrote:
Memorable fart? Or, considering the lung aspect of pneu, a memorable
burp? Or, if you are of a less visceral turn of mind, a spiritual
recollection?
GR
Martin Evans
> that is gaining currency? Can anyone explain?
Sounds like a Malapropism to me
Robert
I often wonder if "moniker" is used as a joke mispronunciation of
"mnemonic", or is it actually a bone fide word?
Robert
Marcus Streets
http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=moniker
2 entries found for moniker.
mon·i·ker or mon·ick·er Audio pronunciation of "moniker" ( P )
Pronunciation Key (mn-kr)
n. Slang
A personal name or nickname.
[Probably from Shelta munik, name, possibly alteration of Irish Gaelic
ainm, from Old Irish. See n-men- in Indo-European Roots.]
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Source: The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language,
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moniker
n : a familiar name for a person (often a shortened version of a
person's given name); "Joe's mother would not use his nickname and
always called him Joseph"; "Henry's nickname was Slim" [syn: nickname,
cognomen, sobriquet, soubriquet]
Source: WordNet ® 2.0, © 2003 Princeton University
John Morrison
If "mnemonics" can turn into "pneumonics", what strange things will
happen to "acronym" ("Alphabetic Collocation Reordering Or Numbering Your
Memory" - according to Stan Kelly-Bootle ...)?
John
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Robert
> Mike Playle wrote:
> > On Fri, 22 Oct 2004 08:24:24 +0000, Rupert Moss-Eccardt wrote:
> >
> >> When I was younger I learnt about 'mnemonics' as a technique to help
> >> remember things. I have recently come across 'pneumonics' which
> >> appear to be the same thing.
> >
> > Mnemonics for airheads?
>
> If "mnemonics" can turn into "pneumonics", what strange things will
> happen to "acronym"
It will lose its distinct meaning and come to mean merely "abbreviation" :-(
Robert
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The Natural Philosopher
> On Friday, October 22, 2004 at 4:24:24 PM UTC+8, Rupert Moss-Eccardt wrote:
>> When I was younger I learnt about 'mnemonics' as a technique to help
>> remember things. I have recently come across 'pneumonics' which appear
>> to be the same thing.
>>
>> Is the latter just a new way of spelling the former? Is it just an error
>> that is gaining currency? Can anyone explain?
>
> it's still "mneumonics",
not much has changed except perhaps our brains over the years :)
>
taught in skool
The number of times I heasr 'The police *is*' instead of 'The police
are' on the beeb and sky....
The concept of plural nouns has vansihed
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> On 23/01/18 06:38, november...@gmail.com wrote:
> > On Friday, October 22, 2004 at 4:24:24 PM UTC+8, Rupert Moss-Eccardt wrote:
> >> When I was younger I learnt about 'mnemonics' as a technique to help
> >> remember things. I have recently come across 'pneumonics' which appear
> >> to be the same thing.
> >>
> >> Is the latter just a new way of spelling the former? Is it just an error
> >> that is gaining currency? Can anyone explain?
> >
> > it's still "mneumonics",
>
> !!!!
>
> not much has changed except perhaps our brains over the years :)
> >
>
> What has changed over the years is that Englsih language is no longer
> taught in skool
>
> The number of times I heasr 'The police *is*' instead of 'The police
> are' on the beeb and sky....
>
> The concept of plural nouns has vansihed
Robin
Vir Campestris
Mnemonic is about memory, derived from the Ancient Greek word μνημονικός
(mnēmonikos).
Pneumonics I have never heard of. In the singular it means something to
do with the lungs, as in pneumonic plague (a black death variant) or
pneumonia. Also from the Greek - pneumonikos.
Andy
Rupert Moss-Eccardt
> On 23/01/2018 06:38, november...@gmail.com wrote:
>> On Friday, October 22, 2004 at 4:24:24 PM UTC+8, Rupert Moss-Eccardt wrote:
>>> When I was younger I learnt about 'mnemonics' as a technique to help
>>> remember things. I have recently come across 'pneumonics' which appear
>>> to be the same thing.
>>>
>>> Is the latter just a new way of spelling the former? Is it just an error
>>> that is gaining currency? Can anyone explain?
>>
>> it's still "mneumonics", not much has changed except perhaps our brains over the years :)
>>
>
> Rupert wrote it when?
>
I didn't even take part in this thread.
Alan Jones
> On 25 Jan 2018 21:33, Vir Campestris wrote:
>> On 23/01/2018 06:38, november...@gmail.com wrote:
>>> On Friday, October 22, 2004 at 4:24:24 PM UTC+8, Rupert Moss-Eccardt wrote:
>>>> When I was younger I learnt about 'mnemonics' as a technique to help
>>>> remember things. I have recently come across 'pneumonics' which appear
>>>> to be the same thing.
>>>>
>>
> There is a very broken newsreader out there.
>
> I didn't even take part in this thread.
>
"I recently came across a green haggis"
It might help to explain some of the postings on cam.misc (:-)
Alan Jones.
Vir Campestris
Andy
Rupert Moss-Eccardt
Googling reveals such a thread. Perhaps my Google-fu is weak.
The Natural Philosopher
> Friday, October 22, 2004 at 4:24:24
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Rupert Moss-Eccardt
> On 29/01/18 12:51, Rupert Moss-Eccardt wrote:
>> Friday, October 22, 2004 at 4:24:24
>
>
> https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/cam.misc/03fO6023lgc
>
> --
I am now getting a faint recollection of something irking me at the
time with the apparent neologism which then seems to have been just
someone getting the word/spelling wrong.
Weird that the thread rose from the dead, though
The Natural Philosopher
Badly.
Its entirely possible that someone stumbled on this and replied, unaware
that it was in fact 13 years ago.
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