creative use of "little"?

Victor Steinbok aardvark66 at GMAIL.COM
Sun Feb 19 22:57:25 UTC 2012


Perhaps, in the sense of "literature-related". I guess that would make
him "literary mangy".

     VS-)

On 2/19/2012 5:39 PM, Wilson Gray wrote:
> On Sat, Feb 18, 2012 at 11:57 PM, Victor Steinbok<aardvark66 at gmail.com>  wrote:
>> it's just coincidental that the dog was literally little.
> I'm not sure, in that case, that it's the same use of "little.". We
> know that the dog *is* literally "little." But, is it literally
> "mangy"?
> --
> -Wilson

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