logo-, log-, -logia, -logic, -logical, -logism, -logician, -logian, -logue
(Greek: talk, speak; speech; word; a person who speaks in a certain manner; someone who deals with topics or subjects)
Words that utilize -ology are in a separate unit. All -ology words can be made into -ologistic forms.
Some logograms are found on road signs, in advertising, etc., and all are designed to represent in simple graphic form an object, a concept, or an attitude.
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3. A prose writer in ancient Greece.
2. A method of printing in which whole words, or syllables, are cast as single types.
3. A mode of reporting speeches without using shorthand; for example, a number of reporters, each in succession, take down three or four words.
2. A word puzzle in which a single word must be discovered from combinations of synonyms, other words, or verses.
As Charles H. Elster, in his There’s a Word for It! writes: “The logoleptic person can lose verbal control in various ways—by going gaga over a pyrotechnic display of logodaedaly, by participating in a logomachy over some obscure point of grammar or etymology, or by being rendered senseless by a logographer’s logorrhea.” (page 199)
2. A dispute about words; a semantic contention getting away from issues or reality.
3. Fighting about words.
4. A word game.
2. A reference to a contention about words or an instance of this.
2. A controversy marked by verbiage.
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2. A rapid, pressured, flow of words when speaking.
2. Anyone who is insanely interested in words.
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Cross references of word families related directly, or indirectly, to: "talk, speak, speech; words, language; tongue, etc.": cit-; clam-; dic-; fa-; -farious; glosso-; glotto-; lalo-; linguo-; locu-; loqu-; mythico-; -ology; ora-; -phasia; -phemia; phon-; phras-; Quotes: Language,Part 1; Quotes: Language, Part 2; Quotes: Language, Part 3; serm-; tongue; voc-.
Related "word, words" units: etym-; legi-; lexico-; locu-; onomato-; -onym; verbo-.