The Order of Things......

[worm]

It refers to getting across something that is spoken. That's one narrative.

[eFestivals]

Lexically speaking, the root term of ''Dia'' is ''Duo'', which means two.

http://www.thefreedictionary.com/dia-

http://www.yourdictionary.com/dia-prefix

http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/dia-

Worm the wing-nut. Proven.

[eFestivals]

It doesn't refer to getting something across you nanna. It refers to two narratives crossing each other. It refers to two things interacting, though it can be more than two.

My apologies. Diagram of course means two drawings.

Worm the wing-nut. Proven.

Edited April 4, 2011 by eFestivals

[worm]

http://www.thefreedictionary.com/dia-

http://www.yourdictionary.com/dia-prefix

http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/dia-

Worm the wing-nut. Proven.

[worm]

My apologies. Diagram of course means two drawings.

[eFestivals]

diameter - the distance across the same circle twice.

diabetic - two people with kidney problems.

diabolical - two awful things.

diagnose - two examinations.

[eFestivals]

They're three dictionary definitions saying that -dia refers to through and/or across. So what?

so what? So the fact that it says nothing like you claim is meaningless?

Great academic skills you have. I wonder when "making it up out of nothing" became the hight of academic method?

Now go off and look for the lexical and etymological roots of -dia and dialogue. You'll see that it came from duo, as I've said, and ended up being applied to logue to mean an interaction between two narrative strains.

I've looked it up. "dia" is the Greek for "across" or "through", and absolutely f**k all to do with "duo". I'm loving your academic discipline.

No, it means a two-dimensional drawing. Just as a dialogue means a two-dimensional narrative.

Just as the two dimensions interact, so the two narrative strains interact.

PMSL.

"gram" is a record of something, in words or drawing. "diagram" is a record that is put down on paper for the purposes of getting it *across* to someone else other than the recorder. It's f**k all to do with two dimensions.

Is there any limit to the amount of winging it you'll do?

[worm]

diameter - the distance across the same circle twice.

diabetic - two people with kidney problems.

diabolical - two awful things.

diagnose - two examinations.

Edited April 4, 2011 by worm

[worm]

I've looked it up. "dia" is the Greek for "across" or "through", and absolutely f**k all to do with "duo". I'm loving your academic discipline.

Edited April 4, 2011 by worm

[worm]

diameter - the distance across the same circle twice.

No, it refers to the distance across TWO points.

diabetic - two people with kidney problems.

No, it refers to the passing through of urine.

diabolical - two awful things.

Not applicable. It refers to diablo, meaning devil.

diagnose - two examinations.

No, it means using symptoms (-dia) to learn (-gnosis) of the disease.

Dialogue - the narrative between two or more characters

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dia- 

a prefix occurring in loanwords from Greek ( diabetes; dialect ) and used, in the formation of compound words, to mean “passing through” ( diathermy ), “thoroughly,” “completely” ( diagnosis ), “going apart” ( dialysis ), and “opposed in moment” ( diamagnetism ).

Also, especially before a vowel , di-.

Origin:

< Greek, combining form representing diá (preposition) through, between, across, by, of, akin to dýo two and di- di-

[worm]

You're a very stupid man.

[greenfairy43]

diabetic - two people with kidney problems.

[eFestivals]

You're a very stupid man.

Says the man too stupid to realise what's happened here. PMSL.

[eFestivals]

WAHAY! Two people Neil. Two people. A protagonist and an antagonist. A two way street. Rather than soliloquy (or monologue).

Erm .... so does a soliloquy or monologue not have a listener? PMSL.

[worm]

Says the man too stupid to realise what's happened here. PMSL.

[worm]

Erm .... so does a soliloquy or monologue not have a listener? PMSL.

[eFestivals]

What, that you've been trolling?

says the man too stupid to realise that he's the f**king troll.

You're so on the ball here that you've just posted that a monologue or soliloquy is someone talking to themselves. PMSL.

[worm]

says the man too stupid to realise that he's the f**king troll.

[eFestivals]

Nope.

A soliloquy is comprised of the internal thoughts of a character much like a lament, though a lament is more often spoken out aloud.

So after all that, you now say that soliloquy is nothing like a monologue, so can't have been it's literally predecessor as you said it was. Another wing-nut.

And of course a monologue has a speaker and a listener. That - from your words about diagram - makes it a dialogue and not a monologue. Another wing-nut.

The wing-nut count is now at about 40 in this thread (I should have kept proper count really). But you're not winging it and posting on the basis of gross stupidity, oh no.

[eFestivals]

You've spouted a load of wrong shit about -dia owing completely to your lack of knowledge and understanding of language, using irrelevant quotes to justify your argument. And you call me the troll.

what I've done I've done in the full knowledge of what I'm doing.

Shame the same doesn't apply to your own posts.

Because, btw, you're still completely wrong about 'dia' - literally wrong.

That's exactly right.

Except it's not. Literally wrong, yet again.

Wing-nut.

[worm]

So after all that, you now say that soliloquy is nothing like a monologue, so can't have been it's literally predecessor as you said it was.

Edited April 5, 2011 by worm

[worm]

Because, btw, you're still completely wrong about 'dia' - literally wrong.

[worm]

what I've done I've done in the full knowledge of what I'm doing.

Edited April 5, 2011 by worm

[eFestivals]

Repeating the party line rather than facing defeat I see.

So Stephen Fry is wrong and you're right. You know everything, and Fry is shit. OK.

Yes it can be. It ostensively means someone's thoughts spoken out aloud to no one in particular.

"can be" also means "can not be".

[eFestivals]

Which are in reverse order: Two points, the interaction between two points, and the narrative made up of two narrative strains.

Except of course nothing about "dia" means "two".

Even you can't make up your mind about it. First it did, then it didn't, now it does again.

But you're not winging it with ignorance, oh no.