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Re: Terminology query

From:Christian Köttl <christian.koettl@...>
Date:Saturday, February 25, 2006, 20:52
In the mail starting the thread, your reply-to was set to your own address.

>I was surprised to see this discussion continuing, then I noticed that >Benct's reply was to me only. Are my messages still going out with a >Reply-To: set? > >He wrote: > >> The Latin term is _nomen agentis_, which becomes _agent noun_ >> in English. <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agent_noun> > >It seems that "agentive" for the ending or the construction, and >"agent noun" for the result, is reasonable. > > >-- >Mark J. Reed <markjreed@...>