From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.science.mathematics.categories/7428 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: peasthope@shaw.ca Newsgroups: gmane.science.mathematics.categories Subject: Terminology; categorical versus categorial. Date: Thu, 6 Sep 2012 10:39:27 -0800 Message-ID: Reply-To: peasthope@shaw.ca NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1347029795 12906 80.91.229.3 (7 Sep 2012 14:56:35 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 7 Sep 2012 14:56:35 +0000 (UTC) Cc: peasthope@shaw.ca To: categories@mta.ca Original-X-From: majordomo@mlist.mta.ca Fri Sep 07 16:56:34 2012 Return-path: Envelope-to: gsmc-categories@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from smtpy.mta.ca ([138.73.1.128]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1T9zyw-0006RU-IT for gsmc-categories@m.gmane.org; Fri, 07 Sep 2012 16:56:30 +0200 Original-Received: from mlist.mta.ca ([138.73.1.63]:44757) by smtpy.mta.ca with esmtp (Exim 4.77) (envelope-from ) id 1T9zxm-0004kU-K1; Fri, 07 Sep 2012 11:55:18 -0300 Original-Received: from majordomo by mlist.mta.ca with local (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1T9zy7-0007VB-Fg for categories-list@mlist.mta.ca; Fri, 07 Sep 2012 11:55:39 -0300 Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.science.mathematics.categories:7428 Archived-At: Apologies in case this story is in the archive. I failed to find it. According to online dictionaries, categorical and categorial can be=20 synonyms. Almost everyone seems to prefer categorical whereas=20 categorial comes from the simple rule of replacing the last vowel of=20 the noun with "ial". So, is the preference for categorical just an inheritance from early=20 authors? Is there a stronger reason to use it? Is the explanation=20 in the archive? Thanks, ... Peter E. --=20 123456789 123456789 123456789 123456789 123456789 123456789 123456789 12 Telephone +13606390202. Bcc: peter at easthope.ca http://carnot.yi.org/= =20 "http://members.shaw.ca/peasthope/index.html#Itinerary " [For admin and other information see: http://www.mta.ca/~cat-dist/ ]