There's another word that means the similar thing as
'personification', i.e. giving a animal or thing human traits. I think
it ends with 'morphosis'. Could anyone tell me what that word is? It's
on the tip of my tongue but I can't quite bring it out of my head.

Thanks"

On Tue, 6 May 2008 04:22:41 -0700 (PDT), Zetsu
 wrote:

>There's another word that means the similar thing as
>'personification', i.e. giving a animal or thing human traits. I think
>it ends with 'morphosis'. Could anyone tell me what that word is? It's
>on the tip of my tongue but I can't quite bring it out of my head.
>
>Thanks"

Anthropomorphism.

-- 
Peter Duncanson, UK
(in uk.culture.language.english)

THANKS SO MUCH.
Exactly the word I wanted.
You guys are really great!

In article ,
Peter Duncanson   wrote:
> On Tue, 6 May 2008 04:22:41 -0700 (PDT), Zetsu
>  wrote:
> 
> >There's another word that means the similar thing as
> >'personification', i.e. giving a animal or thing human traits. I think
> >it ends with 'morphosis'. Could anyone tell me what that word is? It's
> >on the tip of my tongue but I can't quite bring it out of my head.
> >
> >Thanks"
> 
> Anthropomorphism.

Yeah, just don't do it to computers - they hate it.

Cheers
Tony
-- 
Tony Mountifield
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