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From: ciaraldi@cs.rochester.edu (Mike Ciaraldi)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.dec
Subject: Re: etymology of "vaxen"
Message-ID: <6220@sol.ARPA>
Date: 25 Jan 88 23:40:29 GMT
References: <20383@teknowledge-vaxc.ARPA> <4463@ecsvax.UUCP>
Reply-To: ciaraldi@cs.rochester.edu (Mike Ciaraldi)
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In article <4463@ecsvax.UUCP> ethies@ecsvax.UUCP (Eric Thies) writes:
>>(someone else) Why is "vaxen" the plural for "vax"?  

I think it is also a pun on the word "vixen", i.e. female fox,
as in "Beneath the Valley of the Ultra-Vaxen".

>There is some really
>good word that means "giving the attributes of a living thing to an in-
>animate object" but I just can't think of it right now.  

It's "anthropomorphism", or so my cute little dictionary tells me.   ;-)

Mike Ciaraldi
University of Rochester Computer Science Dept.
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