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verb

1) To separate from others; to set apart.

2) To separate or go apart.

3) To separate from a mass and collect about centers or lines of fracture.

adjective

Separated from others; set apart; select.

[Latin segregatus, past participle of segrego = to set apart, to separate; se- = apart, and grex (genetive of gregis) = a flock.]

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segregate
  1542, from L. segregatus, pp. of segregare “separate from the flock, isolate, divide,” from *se gregare, from se “apart from” (see secret) + grege, ablative of grex “herd, flock.” Originally often with ref. to the religious notion of separating the flock of the godly from sinners. Segregation (1555) is from L.L. segregatio, from L. segregatus; in the specific U.S. racial sense it is attested from 1903; segregationist is from the 1920s.

Grex is such a neat word: I loved it when I ran across it teaching Latin. We are sort of a grex here, a flock.

Are we then guilty of segregation?

I am not guilty of anything except frustration with this site, and I am plenty frustrated.

Luke, you working on here again?  I was shut out, too, for a couple of days.  I think the bles=sed gog has repaired me.

Yes, I was unable to get to forums,  could do it in a round about way, by accessing old notifications in my delete box, but that was all.  Got back on today, thanks to GOG.

I never seem to have any trouble getting on. occasionally loses connection and notification e-mail have stopped but otherwise ok.

It’s called the honeymoon period.

Actions speak louder than words.  Why congregate, when the thread is segregate ?

Do we ever do what the thread says?  Congregate sounds too much like some church. Segregate sounds prejudiced, as in, “I am prejudiced agin’ caroliners”.

MarkS - 05 November 2009 04:21 PM

I never seem to have any trouble getting on. occasionally loses connection and notification e-mail have stopped but otherwise ok.

After you type your message, then click “submit post”
  -then scroll to top of page and click “forum” - it immediately posts: saves time, (You can go back and check if it posted, but mine always does.)

Congregate sounds too much like some church. Segregate sounds prejudiced.

You could use the term incongregate, which logically means the same thing as segregate without sounding prejudiced—and has an I-don’t-like-church connotation to boot. I think it’s a good solution for you.

I don’t need the solution. It was your problem up in post #3, I said I liked “grex”, so don’t put it on me.

I just asked a question in post number 3. Besides, Southerners don’t know anything about segregation!

You brought up segregation, even if in a question. Not me. And don’t forget the Civil War and your state’s secession over it.
Our only segregation is for people who do not worship the Cornhuskers Football, which, of course, is the rest of the world.