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Sun 21 Mar, 2004 12:28 pm
Can we combine investigation and ology as "investigationology"?
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What does "more than anything" mean?
Context:
Perhaps more than anything, Mr. Hood, a professor of landscape architecture at the University of California at Berkeley, notices things. He notices the girls playing tag in the church yard, the guys hanging out on the corner. He notices, then he designs for them, mining and divining the soul of places.
No.
"More than anything" means that is the main thing he does. He observes, he notices things.
Thanks McTag.
So just using "Criminal Investigation Ology" is okay?
No, certainly not. "-ology" is a suffix only and cannot exist as an independent word.
It means, making a science out of something. For instance, the science of studying crime and criminals is called criminology.
For your purposes here though, I think the best description would be a phrase such as " the study of criminal investigation".
I will ask my friend, who is a policeman, whether there is a shorter and better expression.
McT
Thanks McTog.
I'd wait the shortened one.
I would guess that the study of criminal investigation can be considered simply as a part of criminology. You don't need to make it any more complicated than that.
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