they don't make words like they used to

[Mullins, Bill AMRDEC]

I watched most of "Rooster Cogburn" over the weekend.  In it, John
Wayne's character is being forcibly retired for reasons of age and
decrepitude.  He maintains that he is good for another "lustrum",
however.


>
> Just got this notice on Linguist List, which led me to wonder...
>
> >
> >This lustrum workshop offers a forum of discussion between
> researchers
> >from different fields of writing research (theoretical linguistics,
> >psycholinguistics, computational linguistics or language education),
> >from different countries and working on different languages.
>
> ...what exactly a lustrum workshop was.  I was pretty sure
> I'd never knowingly encountered a lustrum before, and had no
> conception of what it might be.  Anyone else know?  I may
> have lived a sheltered (not to say benighted) life, but I was
> somewhat surprised to come across this announcement with its
> apparent presupposition that the reader would immediately
> recognize that a "lustrum workshop" obviously refers to...
>

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