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Topic Started: Sep 18 2010, 01:07 PM (1,744 Views)
Dragon wasp
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may i ask what ozoic means? cause a lot of topic's in evolutionary con. have it at the end of the name Eg. postozoic allozoic cenozoic neozoic ect.
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I forgot where the table I prepared is, it had the meaning of Post, Neo, Meta, Zoic, Gene, and the last one which I forgot.

But I'm pretty sure that Zoic means "era" and I know "Post" is future. So Postozoic means Future Era.
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oh .....

also did everyone else just make the first part up or is it from a different laungue.
Edited by Dragon wasp, Sep 18 2010, 01:20 PM.
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Generally greek or latin.
Time flows like a river. Which is to say, downhill. We can tell this because everything is going downhill rapidly. It would seem prudent to be somewhere else when we reach the sea.

"It is the old wound my king. It has never healed."
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Why would we make it up? I've never seen a project with the name being gibberish.

Like I said, Post means future, Neo means new, and Meta means after.
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Sep 18 2010, 01:52 PM
Why would we make it up? I've never seen a project with the name being gibberish.
i have. Ah, the benefits of age. Bangnageese? Djeres?

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Like I said, Post means future, Neo means new, and Meta means after.


Meta, strictly speaking, means 'partially', like metaphysics or whatever.
Time flows like a river. Which is to say, downhill. We can tell this because everything is going downhill rapidly. It would seem prudent to be somewhere else when we reach the sea.

"It is the old wound my king. It has never healed."
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Sep 18 2010, 01:55 PM
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Sep 18 2010, 01:52 PM
Why would we make it up? I've never seen a project with the name being gibberish.
i have. Ah, the benefits of age. Bangnageese? Djeres?
I was talking about the Future Evolution and Alternative Evolution, forgot about The Habitable Zone.
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:rolleyes:

But then, those areas have much more to do with humanity.
Time flows like a river. Which is to say, downhill. We can tell this because everything is going downhill rapidly. It would seem prudent to be somewhere else when we reach the sea.

"It is the old wound my king. It has never healed."
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could you give me a good list?

or do you just use an english to latin/greek
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I use this for Latin:
http://www.translation-guide.com/free_online_translators.php?from=English&to=Latin

For Greek:
http://translate.google.com/#

Remember to tick the "Show Romanization".
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I just use the greek and latin i know.
Time flows like a river. Which is to say, downhill. We can tell this because everything is going downhill rapidly. It would seem prudent to be somewhere else when we reach the sea.

"It is the old wound my king. It has never healed."
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This is a much better latin translator.
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Hey DW, done any latin?
Time flows like a river. Which is to say, downhill. We can tell this because everything is going downhill rapidly. It would seem prudent to be somewhere else when we reach the sea.

"It is the old wound my king. It has never healed."
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Found my prefixes and suffixes table:
Latin Names
First partSecond Part
Post (future)zoic (era)
Meta (after)cene (I think it's time)
Neo (new)can't remember the third one


Nothing new here...
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Meta- hey, it has more meanings than i thought. "after", "beyond", "with", "adjacent", "self", "about".
Time flows like a river. Which is to say, downhill. We can tell this because everything is going downhill rapidly. It would seem prudent to be somewhere else when we reach the sea.

"It is the old wound my king. It has never healed."
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