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Specific comparisons concretely confirm that Della Porta inhabited two linguistically separate worlds, one theoretical and philosophical, compact of Latin and erudite coinages, the other a milieu of laboratory and crafts generating idiomatic terms in different vernaculars. The practice is common in language (Lewis Carroll's famous chortle in the poem "Jabberwocky" in Through the Looking Glass comes to mind - assumed to be the blending of chuckle and snort), and today's coinages continue to amuse. |
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