the need to find another term really resonates with me.
Um. googles greek prefixes Ipso, Prinortho, Ortho, Diaortho, Anameta, Prinmeta, Meta, Diameta, Epipara, Para? That should cover us for up to a C16 ring…
There’s not a chemist who’d be able to figure it out, of course, but then the PhD down the hall looked at me blankly when I just quizzed him about Ipso-substitution.
Well, there’s “Iso-”, which already exists, but was also famously [del]locked in a basement with two pipe-hitting[/del] abused by writers of later Star Trek spinoffs. (Along with the suffix “-metric.”)
I’ve only seen the ortho-, meta-, para- nomenclature used for benzene rings. For larger constructions, I’ve invariably seen numbers used, which are unambiguous.
How about Groucho-, Harpo-, and Chico-?
(Not my own joke - I only steal from the best!)
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Two thumbs up! Also, for completeness’ sake, one middle finger.
So if the mute one did some architecural skeetches, they’d be Harpogonal drawings?
And “There aint-a no such-a thing as-a sanity clause!” comes straight from the Chicodoxy.
Meta- means change in metamorphosis. (cite: metamorphosis | Etymology, origin and meaning of metamorphosis by etymonline )
People who say things morph meaning change are using the wrong part of the word.
Going in the other direction, let’s not forget proto-
Can’t know where you’re going unless you know where you’ve been.
Ooh, I like paranym. A name for something you don’t want to name accurately, like “freedom fighter,” “restroom,” or “liberator.”
There are plenty more ancient Greek prepositions to go for. Ana-, aneu-, anti-, apo-, dia-, ek-, en-, ex-, epi-, eis-, kata-, mekhri-, meta-, para-, peri-, pro-, pros-, syn-, hyper-, hypo-, khoris-. How’s that?
Nobody’s suggested porno-? Then let me be the first.
You win the thread.