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Originally Posted by rkomar
If you buried your ereader in the ground, would you say it was subterranean?
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"After a while, he forgot where he had buried his stash of precious gadgets, and the ereader languished in its subterranean resting place."
Yup.
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If you dropped it in the pool, would it be a submarine ereader?
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If I dropped it in the sea, then yes, I might call it that in some fashion. And the word would convey a lot more imagery than just "underwater."
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I think not. In the same way, I wouldn't use subnivean to describe your ereader if you jammed it into the middle of a snowbank.
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The lawn wasn't in the middle of a snowbank, it was still a lawn--growing plants--beneath a layer of snow. I think that's significant, and, again, evocative.
ApK