Re: Corpora: Zarf now freely available for civilian use. (fwd)

David Campbell (campbed@flux.cpmc.columbia.edu)
Fri, 23 Apr 1999 09:06:21 -0400 (EDT)

> Corpular?
> Corpoidal?
> Corpus-based?
>
> So, what IS the adjective?
>

Not to beat a dead horse, but it appears from the two dictionaries I
consulted that either 'corporal' or 'corporeal' would be the adjectival
from of corpus. Corporal is obsolete, and corporeal is the prefered word.

Interestingly, the noun form of 'corporal' (the military one) comes from
'caporal' of the Latin origin 'caput' meaning head. The adjective
'corporal', meaning 'of the body', comes from the Latin 'corporeus'
meaning body.

Home is So Sad

Home is so sad. It stays as it was left,
Shaped to the comfort of the last to go
As if to win them back. Instead, bereft
Of anyone to please, it withers so,
Having no heart to put aside the theft

And turn again to what it started as,
A joyous shot at how things ought to be,
Long fallen wide. You can see how it was:
Look at the pictures and the cutlery.
The music in the piano stool. That vase.
PHILIP LARKIN