Talk:prosopopesis

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prosopopesis

Any takers? (Wikipedia article did not exist) SemperBlotto 07:28, 1 October 2011 (UTC)

Appears to be very rare indeed, but it is now cited. It appears that this word never gained wide acceptance even among parapsychologists. Ordinary folks would probably call the phenomenon "personality change". --Hekaheka 09:52, 1 October 2011 (UTC)

Passed. - -sche (discuss) 22:48, 3 March 2012 (UTC)

etymology

I suspect this word originated as a borrowing from προσωποποιία (prosōpopoiía), which would have had a derived form something like προσωποποίησις (prosōpopoíēsis). The change of οίη to e in English would be etymologically unsound, as it was two syllables in the original Greek, not the same as the diphthong οι which is commonly represented by oe in Latin and as oe ~ e in French and English. —Soap— 14:03, 30 August 2023 (UTC)