Re: Physics Myth (?) #1

[Mark Sylvester <msylvest@SPIN.IT>]

At 13.28 28/04/00 -0700, James G. Pengra wrote:
> >If you eat equal amounts of pasta and antipasta, will you still be hungry?
>
> Cute, I'll have to remember that one. Actually, I think it's antepasta, but
> only a churl (or a pedagog) would insist on it.

Churlish pedagog supplies free Italian lesson:
pasta: (also) means spaghetti-family food made from flour dough (as in
English word "paste")
pasto: another word for a meal (as in English word "repast")

The "appetiser" course comes before the meal and so is called "antipasto".
"Antipasta" is a common though understandable error. "Ante" is the Latin
form of the prefix. It has evolved to "anti" in Italian.

Mark



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Mark Sylvester
United World College of the Adriatic,
34013 Duino TS, Italy.
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