{"id":316,"date":"2011-06-29T13:22:29","date_gmt":"2011-06-29T17:22:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.anislandmom.com\/?p=316"},"modified":"2011-06-29T22:32:53","modified_gmt":"2011-06-30T02:32:53","slug":"greek-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.anislandmom.com\/?p=316","title":{"rendered":"Greek #1"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Island Mom is going Greek! I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m a wild and crazy gal that way. Thus far, I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve focused on Latin roots. Now, I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m going to start mixing it up with a little Greek. I may even get all hog wild and start throwing in prefixes and suffixes eventually, who knows?<\/p>\n

But for now, I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m gonna stick with roots.<\/p>\n

And so, that brings us to Greek root #1: DEMO<\/strong><\/p>\n

Meaning: people or citizens<\/p>\n

Words: <\/strong><\/p>\n

1. democracy<\/strong> (n) (-cracy = rule or government): rule or government by the people<\/p>\n

The Island Family is not a democracy<\/span>. The small people keep voting for this form of family government, forgetful of the fact that voting is fruitless in a monarchy. The ballots keep them busy for a few minutes, however, when the monarchs need a moment of peace and quiet, or just a good, sadistic laugh.<\/p>\n

2. demographics<\/strong> (n) (graph = write, describe, or record): record of the people, data of a group of people<\/p>\n

According to the small people, the demographics<\/span> of the Island Family include a wide age range. A recurring theme of late with my middle child is how thankful he is to not be living during the time of the dinosaurs. His eyes get saucer-like every time he says this and you can just imagine the mental pictures going through his mind at the moment. Two days ago, he suddenly hesitated mid-sentence and said to me, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153There weren\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t any dinosaurs still around when you were a little girl, were there?\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n

3. pandemic<\/strong> (adj) (pan- = all): pertaining to all the people, over a large area, affecting a large group, or even the world<\/p>\n

The obsession with chocolate is almost an Island Family pandemic<\/span>, affecting all members except Loquacious Cabana Boy. Don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t worry, as I write, we\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re staging an intervention for him. My eldest is convinced he just needs to try more dark chocolate. Smart boy, that one.<\/p>\n

Note: My definition of pandemic is general and my usage is highly manipulated. Anyone in the science fields, for instance, makes definite distinctions between pandemic, endemic (more of a constant condition in a group), and epidemic (often used for diseases that hit a population harder than expected, for instance), as did I when I taught etymology as a \u00e2\u20ac\u0153serious\u00e2\u20ac\u009d class. Given that my blog is usually anything but serious, I took the \u00e2\u20ac\u0153lighter\u00e2\u20ac\u009d road, which will likely consternate some, but\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6oh, well. If the masses cause an uproar, I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll happily do a post outlining the three in more detail.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Island Mom is going Greek! I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m a wild and crazy gal that way. Thus far, I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve focused on Latin roots. Now, I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m going to start mixing it up with a little Greek. I may even get all hog wild and start throwing in prefixes and suffixes eventually, who knows? But for now, I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m gonna stick […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[314,315,17,311,312,100,316,310,313],"class_list":["post-316","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-etymology-lessons","tag-democracy","tag-demographics","tag-etymology-2","tag-greek","tag-greek-roots","tag-island-living","tag-pandemic","tag-roots","tag-vocabulary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.anislandmom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.anislandmom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.anislandmom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.anislandmom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.anislandmom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=316"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.anislandmom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.anislandmom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=316"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.anislandmom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=316"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.anislandmom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=316"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}