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Chris -- 2018-04-11
Words whose final syllable has been changed from the endings “crit” (criterion, to separate), “krit” (to make) and “crite” (evolved from “to separate” into “stage acting”, believe it or not) into “crypt”, thereby grafting on the idea of something hidden. Sanscrypt: an obscure language, or a dead one. Hypocrypts hide their true beliefs behind a phony front. The hematocrypt conveys the idea of changes in the red blood cell count that we can’t see?
Exercise forum
Another consideration regarding when it is best for the spleen to contract: Seb Murat said that increased
hematocrypt from splenic reaction delays vasoconstriction.
(http://forums.deeperblue.com/508427-post133.html)
Futurism and communication
In India, the English invaders found the ancient sanscrypt.
http://www.perspektiva.com.br/futuro/co … change.htm
Latino anime forum
The word chakra is a sanscrypt word that means “wheel”.
(http://foroslatinanime.foroactivo.net/o … s-t277.htm)
Modern drunkard forum
Now I hate you because your are a hypocrypt.
(http://moderndrunkardmagazine.com/bbs/v … 6&start=15)
Last edited by David Bird (2009-10-14 21:14:14)
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How do you hyde a hippo? (Hypocrypt is really classy!)
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Sanscrypt is probably scrypt as much as crypt, I would suppose. I.e. this may well be a spelling variant of “sanscriptâ€, which kem reported back when. “Sandscript†was also reported.
*If the human mind were simple enough for us to understand,
we would be too simple-minded to understand it* .
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Oops, I had a reference to Kem’s post in one of the incarnations of this entry. Somehow it didn’t make it into this one, though it was the inspiration for the search.
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The earlier discussion of “sanscript†is at http://eggcorns.lascribe.net/forum/view … hp?id=3668 “Sanscrypt” is a more plausible eggcorn than “sanscript.”
Apparently “-crypt†words can be acorns as well as eggcorns. The words “encrypt†and “decrypt,†used to describe encoding and decoding, are sometimes spelled as “enscrypt/enscript†and “descrypt/descript,†redirecting the assumed derivation away from the Greek “kryptos†toward the Latin “scribere.†The nouns “encryption†and “decryption†suffer the same fate.
Examples:
Post in a hacker’s forum: “even if you descript files for ct2.2 u cant open them â€
A PHP coding forum: “ You can use the same FSF file to descrypt files.â€
Ubuntu forum: an opinion about two cases in which a separate boot partition could be useful:
1. If you want to enscrypt the whole system. “Just an opinion about two cases in which a separate boot partition could be useful:
1. If you want to enscrypt the whole system.â€
Post on a code developer forum: “I am making an enscription program with XOR but there is one problem when the letter being enscripted and the key are the same letter it dosent work. â€
Last edited by kem (2009-10-14 23:06:45)
Hatching new language, one eggcorn at a time.
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kem wrote:
The earlier discussion of “sanscript†is at http://eggcorns.lascribe.net/forum/view … hp?id=3668 “Sanscrypt” is a more plausible eggcorn than “sanscript.”
I find them about equally plausible (and both good)—an exotic language from millenia ago is connected in my mind both with crypticness and with being written.
*If the human mind were simple enough for us to understand,
we would be too simple-minded to understand it* .
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