Jul. 2nd, 2003

truepenny: artist's rendering of Sidneyia inexpectans (Default)
Bad dreams and bad sleep the past couple nights.

The worst was the dream I had just before waking up this morning, that I had been trapped by born-again Christian psychologists, and was going to be treated whether I wanted to be or not.

Have been v. sluggish as a result. Got basically nothing done yesterday, and have decided to give myself permission to get nothing done today. Will watch movies with [livejournal.com profile] heres_luck instead. Yay!

Tomorrow it's back to the library.
truepenny: artist's rendering of Sidneyia inexpectans (Default)
I ask on behalf of [livejournal.com profile] heres_luck and [livejournal.com profile] renenet, because I don't want to tell them the wrong thing.

They were talking, apparently--and you'll have to ask one of them for the context--about the word "subterranean" and wondering what the opposing term for above-ground would be. I think--and said--that it would be "superterranean," but my Latin's a little rusty and I'm not quite sure what the distinction is between super- and supra-.

Can you distinguish between ABOVE ground (as in the "airs above ground" of the Lippizaners) and ON the ground?

And, off my own bat, what would the word be for "through the earth," i.e., neither above nor below? Or is that even a distinction that the Latin conception of terra allows for?

Disquisitions welcome! The more pedantic the better!

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