tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2629301231907528990.post8405123067811808010..comments2024-03-08T13:38:56.717+00:00Comments on Inky Fool: AntiscianM.H. Forsythhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01464964455944509750noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2629301231907528990.post-24143393097296132722013-10-17T11:41:05.088+01:002013-10-17T11:41:05.088+01:00It's pretty neat I stumbled upon this word. Ye...It's pretty neat I stumbled upon this word. Yes, there may not be many practical uses for it, but I have one. When I was much younger I used to get this recurring nightmare where the fate of the world (which in the dream was just a small spherical green chicken-fenced grid - think old-school computers) rested on my shoulders. All I had to do was chase down and catch before time ran out the only other person who on this orb, but you see - no matter how hard I ran or which direction I took, that guy would always be on the exact opposite end of the sphere. He would always be my antiscian. Needless to say I always woke up from this dream in a terrible panic.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2629301231907528990.post-44469831653470892832009-12-03T15:41:37.617+00:002009-12-03T15:41:37.617+00:00So far as I can tell, Mr Grady, an antiscian is an...So far as I can tell, Mr Grady, an antiscian is anybody due South or North of you and on the other side of the equator. So a scian would be on the same side of the equator but neither to the East nor the West. You ought therefore to be able to be your own scian.M.H. Forsythhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01464964455944509750noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2629301231907528990.post-42377878879395274082009-12-03T14:20:47.525+00:002009-12-03T14:20:47.525+00:00Mr. Dogberry,
Admitting that I am someone who val...Mr. Dogberry,<br /><br />Admitting that I am someone who values the surroundings most immediate to everyday life, may I kindly request an explanation as to where I might find my <i>scian</i>. That would be the scian to which there is an anti-scian.<br /><br />According to the logic of your word of the day, the person in question should be right here, in fact under my feet. Or am I mistaken? Are we all scians in our own lives? Why then bother to create a separate word for it?<br /><br />As you know, I have traveled the world several times over, but my linguistic journeys have never taken me to Antiquity and Latin. My focus has always been on the living, hence my shortcomings in dead languages.<br /><br />GradyEdmund M. Gradyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07929683938286256571noreply@blogger.com