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Feb. 12th, 2010 08:27 am
randy_byers: (2009-05-10)
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I never knew that "ortho" meant "correct". Thus "orthodoxy" means "correct belief". So "politically correct" could be understood as another way to say "orthodox", which is probably pretty close to how it was used in the Marxist-Leninist context, before it became a libertarian pejorative.

Re: Orthodoxy vs Heterodoxy

Date: 2010-02-12 04:38 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] randy-byers.livejournal.com
Yes, indeed. (And little shoxy doysters, I might add.)

Re: Orthodoxy vs Heterodoxy

Date: 2010-02-12 04:54 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] randy-byers.livejournal.com
And now I'm wondering about orthosexuality.

Re: Orthodoxy vs Heterodoxy

Date: 2010-02-12 05:36 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] ceemage.livejournal.com
Orthosexuality is, presumably, what one indulges in with one's ortho doxy.

Date: 2010-02-12 07:35 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] farmgirl1146.livejournal.com
This puts Ortho pest and weed killers (a Scott product) in a whole new light.

Date: 2010-02-12 07:38 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] randy-byers.livejournal.com
Very true! Garden correction?

Date: 2010-02-13 12:41 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] crowleycrow.livejournal.com
"Dox" the root of words like "doctrine" = teaching or creed or set of principles.

"Heterodox" a lovely word for holding some different fteachings or principles from the right ones.

"Ortho" also in "orthogonal" - right-angled.

Date: 2010-02-13 01:53 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] randy-byers.livejournal.com
I have never really thought about the meaning of "right" in "right-angled". Does it mean something like "square"? I seem to recall that what I read about "ortho" this morning indicated that it could mean "straight" as well as "correct". I was also puzzled at what "ortho" might mean in "orthopedics". Does it come from setting broken bones straight? Obviously more research is required! (As always.)

Date: 2010-02-13 05:50 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] voidampersand.livejournal.com
Orthopedics has to be setting bones at right angles, orthogonally.

Date: 2010-02-13 03:22 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] randy-byers.livejournal.com
Now there's a scary thought!

Date: 2010-02-13 10:52 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] crowleycrow.livejournal.com
Yes, setting straight. Also in "orthodontics," e.g.

I agree, initially

Date: 2010-02-13 06:11 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] paulcarp.livejournal.com
I can't see "PC" without thinking of people. Phil Collins. Peter Cetera. Present company...

Re: I agree, initially

Date: 2010-02-13 07:42 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] randy-byers.livejournal.com
Guess I'll have to start calling you Mr. Orthodox.

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