This conflation of the old accusative, dative, instrumental, and ( after prepositions ) genitive cases is the oblique case.

are a conflation of the old accusative and dative cases, as well as of the genitive case after prepositions.

Either way, this assimilation, combined with the use of the Sephardic rite, led to the popular designation and conflation of most non-Ashkenazic Jewish communities from the Middle East and North Africa as " Sephardic ", whether or not they were descended from Spanish Jews, which is what the terms " Sephardic Jews " and " Sepharadim " properly implied when used in the ethnic as opposed to the religious sense.

Middle Eastern dance is often referred to as exotic dance in this way, though its use of hip / pelvic movement and isolation often results in its conflation with exotic dance in the erotic sense.

*" slumber "-relaxed, laid-back ; possibly a conflation of the Malay " selamba ", meaning nonchalant, and the English " slumber ".

Others, however, argue that, since both ( or all ) parts already exist in the English lexicon, such mixing is merely the conflation of two ( or more ) English morphemes in order to create an English neologism ( new word ), and so is appropriate.

The elasticity of verb meaning in English can be illustrated by instances in which a conflation of motion is merged with manner or a conflation of causation with manner, e. g. The bride floated towards her future.

The word sigel as a conflation of two words, the inherited word for Sun, the feminine sigel and an Old English neuter sigle or sygle for " jewel, necklace ", loaned from Latin sigilla.

Marie de France's poem Lanval, along with other Old French Arthurian works, has this city as " Kardeol ", which, given the confusion, must have sounded, even to a late-Medieval English ear, like a conflation of Carlisle and Cardiff.

Boris Godunov has seldom been performed in either of the two forms left by the composer, frequently being subjected to cuts, recomposition, re-orchestration, transposition of scenes, conflation of the original and revised versions, or translation into another language.

Ovid's conflation of the goddesses is likely to have been his poetic invention, but it has also been conjectured that Carna was a contracted form of Cardina, and at minimum Ovid was observing that their traditions were congruent.

Wallinger's design is of a giant white horse modelled on another of his own racehorses, ' Riviera Red ', and has been described by his supporters as " an absolutely mesmerising conflation of old England and new, of the semi-mythical, past and the six-lanes, all-crawling present ".

The conflation of Mary Magdalene with the adulteress saved from stoning by Jesus has some precedent in tradition but according to the director was done for dramatic reasons.

Hungarian nationalist composers, like Bartók, rejected the conflation of Hungarian and Roma music, studying the rural peasant songs of Hungary which, according to music historian Bruno Nettl, " has little in common with " Roma music, a position that is held to by some modern writers, such as the Hungarian author Bálint Sárosi.

Although it has definitions in the theory of the field that have been formulated from the early 20th century onwards, it has suffered in more recent years from being blurred, as a result of conflation of the idea of a public with the notions of audience, market segment, community, constituency, and stakeholder.

However, Michael W. Holmes has pointed out that it is not certain " that Papias knew the story in precisely this form, inasmuch as it now appears that at least two independent stories about Jesus and a sinful woman circulated among Christians in the first two centuries of the church, so that the traditional form found in many New Testament manuscripts may well represent a conflation of two independent shorter, earlier versions of the incident.

There has been some speculation — such as by Maurus Servius Honoratus, an ancient commentator on the Aeneid — that she is perhaps a conflation of Hera with the Carthaginian storm-goddess Tanit in some aspects of her portrayal here.

This has resulted in a conflation of terms, particularly in Israel, and in religious usage, where " Sephardi " is used in a broad sense to include Mizrahi Jews as well as Sephardim proper.

Some Biblical scholars reject this theory, however, holding that Jude and Thaddeus did not represent the same person .< ref name = AMJ > John P. Meier, A Marginal Jew volume 3, pp 130-133, 200 (" Christian imagination was quick to harmonize and produce Jude Thaddeus, a conflation that has no basis in reality.

By blending the identity of the two conflated St. Lazarus individuals with the identity of the Babalu Aye, Santería has gone one step further than the conflation within Catholicism, to become the kind of religious conflation known as syncretism, in which deities or concepts from two different faiths are conflated to form a third.

Idiom conflation has been used as a source of humor in certain situations.

However, a classically positivist conflation of naturalism with scientism has not disappeared ; this view is still dominant in some old and prestigious schools, such as the sociology departments at the University of Chicago in the United States, and McGill University in Montréal, Canada.

Robert Eisenman has read this shadowy figure of " Joseph Justus " as a cloned conflation who represents in a single figure all the Desposyni — rejected, according to the author of Acts in favor of an otherwise unknown Matthias ( Eisenman 1997 ).

The story has been linked with anti-Jewish propaganda of the 2nd and 1st centuries BCE as an inversion of the Exodus story, but an influential study by Egyptologist Jan Assmann has suggested that no single historical incident or person lies behind the legend, and that it represents instead a conflation of several historical traumas, notably the religious reforms of Ahkenaton ( Amenophis IV ).

The most commonly recurring characters outside of the Earwicker family are the four old men known collectively as " Mamalujo " ( a conflation of their names: Matt Gregory, Marcus Lyons, Luke Tarpey and Johnny Mac Dougall ).

It is unclear whether the various companions of St. Nicholas are all expressions of a single tradition concerning Knecht Ruprecht ( since various texts, especially those outside the tradition, often treat the companions as variations of Knecht Ruprecht ), or most likely a conflation of multiple traditions.

The most prominent example of central conflation is the structuration theory of Anthony Giddens.

Sumeria had a base-60 system with a decimal subbase ( perhaps a conflation of the decimal and a duodecimal systems of its constituent peoples ), which was the origin of the numbering of modern degrees, minutes, and seconds.

Ninus (), according to Greek historians writing in the Hellenistic period and later, was accepted as the eponymous founder of Nineveh ( also called Νίνου πόλις " city of Ninus " in Greek ), Ancient capital of Assyria, although he does not seem to represent any one personage known to modern history, and is more likely a conflation of several real and / or fictional figures of antiquity, as seen to the Greeks through the mists of time.

Phil Hardy, in his Encyclopedia of Western Movies ( 1985 ), wrote of El Topo: " Rather in the manner of Federico Fellini, whose self-conscious conflation of the roles of charlatan and ringmaster of the unconscious Jodorowsky apes, the film is a breathtaking concoction of often striking, but more often ludicrous, images.

According to Jonathan Gray in his 2006 book Watching with The Simpsons: Television, Parody, and Intertextuality, the episode makes fun of the " conflation of real time and occasional predilection for time jumps " often seen in sitcoms.

Despite the frequent ( and often, insidious ) conflation of Original Intent with Originalism, other schools of Originalist thought have been as critical of original intent as non-Originalists.

The Lutheran liturgy differs from that of other Protestants by using a conflation of the four versions of the words of institution.

In John Steinbeck's novel, " Sweet Thursday " ( also 1954 ), Mack describes Doc's melancholic condition in suggesting that his fellow denizens of the Palace Flophouse help him out, using a punning conflation of slang and Bunyan: " Gentlemen.

It is however unlikely given that the Indo-Iranian roots of the term are related to the Semitic ones and although — through conflation — Aredvi Sura Anahita ( so the full name ) inherited much from Ishtar-Inanna, the two are considered historically distinct.

In Polish " siksa " ( pronounced " s ' eeksa ") is a popular pejorative word for an immature young girl or teenage girl ( there is no masculine form ), as it is a conflation between the Yiddish term and usage of the Polish verb " sikać " (" to piss ", " to urinate ").

Because the calculated osmol gap can therefore be a conflation of both terms ( depending on how it is derived ), neither term ( osmolal gap nor osmolar gap ) may be semantically correct.

Fair value, also called fair price ( in a commonplace conflation of the two distinct concepts ), is a concept used in accounting and economics, defined as a rational and unbiased estimate of the potential market price of a good, service, or asset, taking into account such objective factors as:

The Canadian dominatrix Terri-Jean Bedford, who was one of three women who initiated an application in the Ontario Superior Court seeking invalidation of Canada's laws regarding brothels, sought to differentiate for clarity her occupation as a dominatrix rather than a prostitute to the media, due to frequent misunderstanding and conflation by the public of the two terms.

In 1997 John T. Koch suggested the conflation of a probable primary form * Bernech with the native form * Brïγent for the old civitas Brigantum as a result of Anglian expansion in that territory during the 7th century.

" D. Michael Quinn says that Smith's account is a conflation of events over several years, a typical biographical device for streamlining the narrative.

A smear campaign, smear tactic or simply smear is a metaphor for activity that can harm an individual or group's reputation by conflation with a stigmatized group.

A " smear campaign ", " smear tactic " or simply " smear " is a metaphor for activity that can harm an individual or group's reputation by conflation with a stigmatized group.

As a result of the conflation, the practice was to wait seven days after menstruation ceases, and for the woman to then immerse herself in water.

Even Allen's name was a source of controversy: he had been known since his youth as " Dick " to family and friends, but for reasons which are still somewhat obscure, the media referred to him upon his arrival in Philadelphia as " Richie ", possibly a conflation with the longtime Phillies star Richie Ashburn.

Luther's account of the encounters, though appearing singular may have been a conflation of separate meetings, each meeting being similar enough for Luther to describe as one.

These policies were opposed by the Right, who contended that it made slums an open territory for organized crime, represented by huge gangs like Comando Vermelho ( Red Command ), by means of a conflation between common criminality and leftism: it was alleged that gangs had been born through the association of common convicted prisoners and leftist political prisoners in the 1970s.

However, if the distinctions between the two concepts appear to be superficial, intentional conflation may be desirable for the sake of conciseness and recall.

But conflation of these two different concepts leads to the notion that all ideological ideas, for example, should be treated with respect, rather than just the right to hold these ideas.

Verblitz is a conflation of verde ( Portuguese for ' green ') and blitz ( German for ' lightning ').

The reason for this conflation is probably that Marx's real analytical concern was not really with the pricing processes as such, but with the main factors influencing the realisation and distribution of new surplus-value produced, when sales occur.