If I'm overlooking the obvious please let me know, but according to the OED, the definition of "bite" is "The act or action of cutting, piercing, or wounding, with the teeth" and and that of "bitten" is "Cut into, pierced, or wounded with the teeth". While "smite's" definition is of "A stroke or heavy blow with a weapon, the hand, etc., or the sound made by this" and "smitten's" is "That has been smit; beaten, struck". I don't see a huge analogical difference. They seem rather apposite to me, in fact.
One may, of course, use "smitten" as a verb without an object, "smitten by affection," for example, but that doesn't negate the other uses of the word, right?
Maybe I'm crazy, but it seems like smite and smitten are opposite. I always think of smite as a bad thing and being smitten as a good thing. While biting is fun but being bitten is annoying.
Well, I guess it does. But yes, "smitten" generally these days means "love struck," whereas if I mean to smite you, it probably has nothing to do with love.
So, the analogy technically works. I defer to you and o_lucky_man.
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Date: 2007-02-18 10:32 pm (UTC)Squeeze: not that either
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Date: 2007-02-18 10:50 pm (UTC)hat : darn it. Try again!
Mouse : mice
House : oh fooey.
We'll come up with something sometime.
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Date: 2007-02-18 10:57 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2007-02-18 11:47 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2007-02-19 08:19 pm (UTC)If I'm overlooking the obvious please let me know, but according to the OED, the definition of "bite" is "The act or action of cutting, piercing, or wounding, with the teeth" and and that of "bitten" is "Cut into, pierced, or wounded with the teeth". While "smite's" definition is of "A stroke or heavy blow with a weapon, the hand, etc., or the sound made by this" and "smitten's" is "That has been smit; beaten, struck". I don't see a huge analogical difference. They seem rather apposite to me, in fact.
One may, of course, use "smitten" as a verb without an object, "smitten by affection," for example, but that doesn't negate the other uses of the word, right?
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Date: 2007-02-20 01:25 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2007-02-18 11:55 pm (UTC)think:thank:thunk....
...mink:mank:monk...
smite:smat:smut?
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Date: 2007-02-19 12:00 am (UTC)Not that I'm being picky or anything... ;-)
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Date: 2007-02-19 01:30 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2007-02-19 02:44 am (UTC)Smitten means struck, same as hit.
We just generally interpret it as "love struck."
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Date: 2007-02-19 10:05 pm (UTC)So, the analogy technically works. I defer to you and
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Date: 2007-02-19 10:08 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2007-02-19 11:23 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2007-02-19 03:36 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2007-02-21 02:05 am (UTC)I think I'll have to make a copy of it for my own records.