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I'm sorry *Anthimeria doesn't mean anything. The prefix is clearly anti-, not *anthi-, and -meria from meris -idos, "part", therefore meria or mereia. I propose that this entry is changed to either Antimeria or Antimereia for the sake of common sense. In my opinion a better description of the term is needed as well.
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As the article points out in its intro, this is a term of rhetoric. Presumably it applies primarily when somebody does it achieving, intentionally or not, a particular rhetorical effect. The section on modern examples and slash, though, are about language change. While early uses may have been Anthimeria, I don't think the examples really apply the way they are. If this term has been co-opted into describing language change, then that's fine, but it probably doesn't belong in a section about rhetoric.-- Brett ( talk) 12:03, 17 January 2015 (UTC)
Just like beziehungsweise (bzw.) in German. 2001:171B:2274:7C21:7477:5625:3765:DCB7 ( talk) 21:30, 15 May 2022 (UTC)
Can we all just appreciate that the quote they took from the source about "slash" developing in to a word of it's own used the "/" to describe its usage in the quote.
Is this anthimeria? I did a quick internet search, nothing I found supported it as such. CerroFerro ( talk) 19:37, 9 June 2018 (UTC)
If "book" as a verb is an anthimeria, it is an anthimeria that is at least 1,000 years old. According to the Online Etymology Dictionary [1], our noun "book" and our verb "to book" derive from two distinct Old English words: bōc and bōcian. Their definitions correspond quite directly to our usages of "book" and "to book." In Old English, bōc means "document" or "charter;" bōcian means "to grant by charter." A better primary example of anthimeria would be a verb that is widely used, but still can be traced to the recent trend (a lazy one, in my opinion) towards the indiscriminate verbalization of nouns whenever convenient. My choice would be the word "privilege." Rev. H. Carlton Earwiggherd ( talk) 16:44, 22 April 2020 (UTC)