[extropy-chat] Harv's Explanation for Slow Progress

[Brian Atkins]

Harvey Newstrom wrote:
>>
>>Not here, but perhaps I should paypal $1 to anyone who can properly
>>spell the word "singularitarian" on a regular basis :-)
> 
> 
> I would have never guessed that spelling.  How do you derive this?  I
> assumed that most words ending in -y changed the y to I and added an.
> Comedy -> comedian.  Thus, singularity -> singularitian.  How do you derive
> "singularitarian"?
> 

Ok, so henceforth you shall be known as a vegetian :-)

Seriously, I'm not the one who came up with it. But whoever did must 
have decided that the -arian ending made more sense. Apparently from a 
quick 2 minute googling it does appear to be more appropriate.

http://education.yahoo.com/reference/dictionary/entries/11/a0421100.html
-- 
Brian Atkins
Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence
http://www.singinst.org/