It is the popular users who are wrong.

Post #116,880 by FuManChu 9/6/03 1:09:47 PM Reply	It is the popular users who are wrong. They have juxtaposed the wrong part of "transcendental" with "rational" to create "transrational" in an attempt to justify their belief in transcendence. Similar mistake to "posture-pedic". Karsten is using "transrational" in its correct form. "Irrational" would simply mean "without rationality". "Transrational" is used to imply there is a rational process present; however, it has changed to the opposite of "normal" rationality, cf. [link\|http://dictionary.cambridge.org/define.asp?key=84393&dict=CALD\|http://dictionary.ca...y=84393&dict=CALD] "There's a set of rules that anything that was in the world when you were born is normal and natural. Anything invented between when you were 15 and 35 is new and revolutionary and exciting, and you'll probably get a career in it. Anything invented after you're 35 is against the natural order of things." Douglas Adams
Post #116,887 by deSitter 9/6/03 1:21:11 PM Reply	Re: It is the popular users who are wrong. Alright, I could have missed something, but "transrational" would be a good thing - when Poincare stepped on that bus and was instantly confronted with the solution to the problem of Fuchsian functions he'd been seeking for months, he was acting "transrationally". It's a fancy word for "intuitive". -drl
Post #116,893 by FuManChu 9/6/03 1:45:33 PM Reply	Doesn't mean you should use the wrong term. You're trying to use "transrational" to mean "outside of rationality". But "trans-" as a root means "across" or "changed". The only context in which it gains the meaning of "outside of" is when your other root implies a boundary or movement: words like "transcendent" = "to climb across". "Transrational" does neither. You can't simply borrow a prefix from one context and apply it to another, hoping to gain the implications of the original word. When you get a blood transfusion, thank your lucky stars it does not mean "to pour out". Ditto for transplant. Perhaps that was the "complication" in Poincare's surgery... "There's a set of rules that anything that was in the world when you were born is normal and natural. Anything invented between when you were 15 and 35 is new and revolutionary and exciting, and you'll probably get a career in it. Anything invented after you're 35 is against the natural order of things." Douglas Adams
Post #116,895 by broomberg 9/6/03 1:51:00 PM Reply	My favorite confusing word inflammable [link\|http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=inflammable\|http://dictionary.re...rch?q=inflammable] vs flammable [link\|http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=flammable\|http://dictionary.re...earch?q=flammable]

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