2006-06-19 20:08:59 · 7 answers · asked by newyorkpd 1 in Education & Reference ➔ Words & Wordplay
sorry for the short question. For example, if someone write 'French Raper', do you guess his intention for the word is 'French Rapper' or 'French Rapist' or something. What is your first impression?
2006-06-19 20:28:58 · update #1
'Raper' is a very oblique and non-standard way to refer to 'one who rapes' and is not included in most dictionaries. The word has most likely come to be in the 2003 edition of the Princeton University WordNet 2.0 lexical database, where I found it, due to the frequency of its incorrect usage. Many new words enter the English language this way, such as 'spelled' or 'dreamed', but this one is just too awkward for my preferences!
It is not the form used by educated or native speakers of English. 'Rapist' is the preferred term. Seeing 'raper' makes me think the writer either doesn't know how to spell 'rapper' or that they think it's accepted English to refer to a person who rapes as a 'raper' and therefore that they do not understand the suffixes of agent nouns in English... Either way, I consider its usage incorrect. 'Raper' is a last name, and stems from the word 'reaper' meaning 'one who harvests'. That, for me, is its only correct usage.
2006-06-19 20:54:58 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Rapist is the proper word
2006-06-19 20:12:00 · answer #2 · answered by S2K 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It would depend on the context of the sentence. Without some additional information, its nearly impossible to say what the writer meant.
2006-06-20 03:35:25 · answer #3 · answered by Ted 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Alone, I thought it would mean "rapist". With "French" in front of it, I thought of "rapper".
2006-06-20 06:26:20 · answer #4 · answered by drshorty 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
depends on context, it could mean "one who rapes", for which the proper word is "rapist", it could be a misspelling of "rapper", it could even be a misspelling of "rapier", a type of sword
2006-06-20 02:38:58 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Your Dumb...Stay In school
2006-06-19 20:12:37 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
no, the spelling is totally different.
2006-06-19 20:11:34 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋