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posted by [personal profile] elanya at 11:01pm on 21/11/2004
Umm.. is 'artifactual' a word? Is there somethign else I should be using, and why sin't it in my brain? o_O As in "Examining the artifactual emains reveals a pattern of social organization distinct from that of the plantation colonies." I just pulled that out of my butt. archaeology peep, help me out? I hate it when I think somethign is a word and my spell-checker insists it isn't. I'm wary of trusting Word, but I also know that my brain is capable of great feats of dictional creativity ;p (Is dictional a word? ;p )
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posted by [identity profile] fritzleonhardt.livejournal.com at 09:09pm on 21/11/2004
Well you wouldn't be the first academic to make up words. However, on that note I think you could just use 'artifact remains'.
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posted by [identity profile] ladyiolanthe.livejournal.com at 09:12pm on 21/11/2004
"Artefactual" is in my Oxford English Reference Dictionary. I suppose "artifactual" might be a word as well; the dictionary entry for "artifact" refers the reader to the definition of "artefact," saying that the i-spelling is a variant of the e-spelling.
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posted by [identity profile] elanya.livejournal.com at 09:16pm on 21/11/2004
e = Britsh way, now less common. i = American way. And Canadian way for that matter. I've never really used artefact, except in Britain... It looks funny!
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posted by [identity profile] ladyiolanthe.livejournal.com at 09:21pm on 21/11/2004
Yes, I figured as much. Weird that Canadians spell it the American way, when we spell colour, armour, etc the British way.
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posted by [identity profile] astatine210.livejournal.com at 01:43am on 22/11/2004

"Examining the artifactual remains reveals a pattern of social organization distinct from that of the plantation colonies."

Would this sentence still get your point across if the word "artifactual" were removed?

If you do keep the word, I'd be inclined to use artefactual, as it looks less like artificial, and therefore less like "the stuff we planted there". But then, I've never been an archaeologist, nor do I have to write in US-variant English.

I'd favour "Lexical" over "Dictional", as well. Dictional is more to do with speech.

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posted by [identity profile] forthright.livejournal.com at 06:19am on 22/11/2004
'Artifactual' is perfectly fine.
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