Tetrapter sounds cooler too.
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but there are plenty of examples of chimeric words in use in English aren't there? Eg television / automobile.
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You’re right, we should definitely all move to “tesserapter"
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are you about word play or breaking down the basics or origins of words sir ?
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pragmatics perhaps
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idioms and puns are fun lol
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if you better understood the ethnolinguistics of a group im sure you could excel then at better psycholinguistics
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no because English is maliable. The soundyness of a word is all that matters. ;)
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Fancy thinking, professor boy. But just look at the box. If it says quadcopter, the world outpaced your logic.
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no it is not wrong. A new trope is born. Ugly as it is for etymology
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I'd say it should be tetrapter. Maybe quadcopter can still be justified as a portmanteau of quad... and helicopter
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Nope, it's right. From Latin quad meaning four and 'copter, English diminutive of helicopter. I like your thinking though.
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Alas, the possible purist alternatives don't exactly fly: 'tetrapter' (Gk.) or 'quadripenna/ quadrala' (Lat.).
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So would tetracopter be more correct?
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