Gee, I haven't seen any postings from anybody with a "lack of capacity of
concern."

The word you keep bringing up is "perturbate" and that word is exactly what
Chaucer et al used, as both a verb and as a noun: perturbate, perturbated,
perturbating, perturbation, etc.

You can't credit Twain for inventing the present tense of the word if
somebody used the past tense a few centuries before him.

Are we really having this dicsussion?

Masticate on this for awhile.

Kevin
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Robert Slotta" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Friday, September 07, 2001 10:58 AM
Subject: The word "perturbate"


> I am afraid there has been a misunderstanding about one word. I was just
> talking about the use of one word, "perturbate."
>
> I was not talking about the word perturb, or perturbed, or perturbating,
or
> perturbs, or perturben, or perturber, or even the latin perturbare (per
> [intensive] + turbare [to throw in disorder]). I wasn't talking about
second
> cousins of the word either. Nor am I interested in the Chinese equivalent
of
> any form of the word.
>
> I am simply interested in the word "perturbate" as being attributable to
> Twain for its first use in print or not. That's all. Those who lack a
> capacity of concern in this matter need not reply.
>
> Thanks,
> Bob
>