Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!wivax!decvax!harpo!floyd!cmcl2!philabs!sdcsvax!sdchema!donn From: donn@sdchema.UUCP Newsgroups: net.nlang Subject: Re: Re: A Query Message-ID: <609@sdchema.UUCP> Date: Wed, 22-Jun-83 04:47:22 EDT Article-I.D.: sdchema.609 Posted: Wed Jun 22 04:47:22 1983 Date-Received: Sat, 25-Jun-83 22:23:41 EDT Lines: 22 References: 5941ux.287 burl.181 If a three-part series is called a trilogy, and a four-part series is called a tetralogy, then a two-part series is called a bilogy, not a biology. ...and a one-part series is called a monology. Someone had to do it, Donn Seeley UCSD Chemistry Dept. RRCF ucbvax!sdcsvax!sdchema!donn UCSD Linguistics Dept. sdamos!donn@nprdc PS This is what comes of reading too many stories by Stanislaw Lem. PPS My vote is for "dilogy". This would be on analogy (sic) with monad, dyad, triad, tetrad, ... (for linguists or philosophers) or monomer, dimer, trimer, tetramer, ... (for chemists) or monode (why not?), diode, triode, tetrode, ... (for EEs) I think "bi-" is Latin but "di-" is Greek (any classicists out there?).