#learning there's ''amnemonic'' meaning exactly what it sounds like. or at least meaning [re: amnesia]
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unproduciblesmackdown · 2 years ago
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lying down to go to sleep i was like "speaking of 'amnesia' that's such a short word between surely the prefix a- and suffix of -ia, potentially the whole -esia...." but then it was like omg [mn] as, surely, memory? it's Just like "mnemonics" fr....then i was wondering like omg is "amnesty" "we will forget you did that" (yes)....wondering whether condemn/damn is related (apparently not) and why it's not "rememnering"...."remnembering"....and that seems to be because the PIE root of [remember, memory, etc] is apparently a "(s?)mer" which is directly about remembering versus the PIE root of the mn words being "men" which is about [to think] with plenty of derivatives about remembering, and more words listed as Related than in the [(s)mer] / memo words list
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