Proposed new syntax

Jussi Piitulainen jussi.piitulainen at helsinki.fi
Sat Aug 12 03:47:29 EDT 2017


Rustom Mody writes:

> [ My conjecture: The word ‘comprehension’ used this way in English is
> meaningless and is probably an infelicious translation of something
> which makes sense in German]

>From a Latin word for "taking together", through Middle French,
according to this source, which has further details:

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/comprehension
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/comprehensio#Latin
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/comprehendo#Latin



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