semantic drift: "officer" PLUS bonus anecdote AND....

Sat Apr 12 14:02:01 UTC 2008

On Apr 12, 2008, at 6:48 AM, Doug Harris wrote:

> They (today's young anchors) believe Ted Baxter is a roll model, not
> a parody.

role/roll is in Brians (with "role model" specifically mentioned), but
not in the ecdb (because we can't see a semantic motivation for the
substitutions in either direction).

arnold

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