Pollution/evolution - the break down of...

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Anonymous  #331187  Tue, 20 Feb 07 12:19 AM

Hello everyone, this is my first post so quick introduction...

My name's Mark Augias and I am a graphic/web designer. The reason I come to you all for help today is that I’m about to start a new series of illustrations and I’m muddling with what to call them.

The idea is to illustrate natural growth taking over our cityscapes instead of the grimy pollutants we see everyday. This is where I need your help... I wanted to call the series 'pro-lution' (a mash up of evolution and pollution with the word 'pro' in it to emphasize that we should be active in helping nature take over the city). I wanted to check where the 'lution' comes from and what it brings to the meaning of pol'lution'  and evo'lution'. for all I know it could relate to the nazi's and I don't want to be shouting that in the streets!

Any help will be very much appreciated.

All the best,

Mark Augias.

  
Feebs11  #331210  Tue, 20 Feb 07 02:17 AM
The words pollution and evolution come from different sources.

Evol-ution derives from "evolve" from Latin evolvere ‘unrolling’
Poll-ution derives from  "pollute" from Latin polluere ‘pollute, defile’.

-ution is a suffix used to convert a verb into a noun, and has no meaning of itself.
  
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Eimai_Anglos  #331443  Tue, 20 Feb 07 06:21 PM
And just for completeness, there is no apostrophe in "nazis". We form the plural simply by adding an "s". An apostrophe reduces the word to its singular possessive case.
  
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Zeppe  #331483  Tue, 20 Feb 07 08:08 PM
My name's Mark Augias and I am a graphic/web designer.


OT: is "my name's" correct? It doesn't sound good to me...

However, I don't like 'pro-lution' very much because it let me think  to "pro-pollution"... and I can't get evolution since you took off the actual radix of the word...
  
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Feebs11  #331492  Tue, 20 Feb 07 08:52 PM
OT: is "my name's" correct?   Yes >>>contracted form of "My name  is"
  
Anonymous  #331556  Wed, 21 Feb 07 12:32 AM

Thanks feebes, great help!

  
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