Please excuse my ignorance, but...

January 5th, 2009
  • What does ex- mean in these post headings, as in 'ex-WAS' or 'ex-MIA'

    Thanks.


  • Be careful of the ex LAX notations...

    :p


  • ex means "from"


  • Thanks for the post. I, too, had a problem figuring out what ex. meant.


  • hmmm... and I thought it was short for "exiting"...


  • What does ex- mean in these post headings, as in 'ex-WAS' or 'ex-MIA'

    Thanks.

    A very valid question. It took me some time to figure it out.


    From, departure city, etc.


  • hmm... i suspect i'm part of the problem here
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  • "Please excuse my ignorance, but..."

    oh..... :rolleyes:

    and, for the record, i always thought ex- meant excluding (i.e., ex-nyc would mean excluding nyc). but, flyertalk-ese means just the opposite.


  • Be careful of the ex LAX notations...

    :p

    LOL ^


  • ... and, for the record, i always thought ex- meant excluding (i.e., ex-nyc would mean excluding nyc). but, flyertalk-ese means just the opposite.

    My guess is that Ex meaning "from" or "out of" is from a language a little bit older than Flyertalk-ese :) :

    http://dictionaries.travlang.com/EnglishLatin/dict.cgi?query=ex&max=50

    http://www.arts.cuhk.edu.hk/cgi-bin/aglimpse-latin/16/www/Lexis/Latin?query=ex&case=on&whole=on&errors=0


  • A very valid question. It took me some time to figure it out.


    From, departure city, etc.

    Geez, I'm a newbie for life (trust me, just proved it all over again this long weekend), and after reading a few replies, even I figured it out :rolleyes:

    Hm, saw some insigtful posts by Andrej previously, wonder what got him banned :confused:

    Then again, I have trouble with airline abreviations, other than AA, CO, NW, and AC they seem to pick letter and numbers at random.

    Damn I miss sig lines, mine used to be

    EmailKid

    What the hell do I know, I'm a newbie for life


  • It's not FlyerTalk-ese. In my Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary (English, not Latin or FTese) "out of/from" is the first definition of "ex."


  • so high school latin didnt pay off on the SAT's

    looks like it helped me out on FT :D







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