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Link to her husband is to the wrong Guy Sayer. I don't know hoe to fix it86.6.41.186 (talk) 17:20, 28 October 2013 (UTC)[reply]

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The OED says empassioned is an older spelling of impassioned with no cites since the 17th century and no indication that it is anything but a spelling variant. Webster's Unabridged doesn't even mention the em- variation. Both say the word comes from the Italian impassionare. I won't change it, but you should consider it. Sincerely, what do you think the difference is? Ortolan88

Impassioned is just a modern fad, it'll be back to empassioned in the fullness of time. The word empassioned has for me a resonance which is sadly bereft in impassioned:

And now it is empassioned so deepe,

For fairest Vnaes sake, of whom I sing

[..] Edmund Spenser The Faerie Queene

The word impassioned lacks the centrality and poeticised internalisation which empassioned provides: alliterative as it is with emotion, empathy, etcetera. Which is central to what I am saying about Sylvia Sayer, a woman for whom I have boundless admiration, perhaps one of the first serious eco-warriors. user:sjc

Just an old-fashioned love song ... Ortolan88

Ho ho ho. user:sjc

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+Link to her husband is to the wrong Guy Sayer.  I don't know hoe to fix it[[Special:Contributions/86.6.41.186|86.6.41.186]] ([[User talk:86.6.41.186|talk]]) 17:20, 28 October 2013 (UTC)