lexical query

[Arnold M. Zwicky]

On Sep 3, 2007, at 1:17 PM, John M. Spartz wrote:

> It might be too far afield, but how about "pharmakon" from Plato's
> Phaedrus (he
> refers to writing as a pharmakon), as discussed in Derrida's
> Plato's Pharmacy to
> mean both "remedy" and "poison"...?

again, not a general term for the phenomenon, but a (possible)
specific example of it.

arnold

------------------------------------------------------------
The American Dialect Society - http://www.americandialect.org