unfoil; annuls

[Joel S. Berson]

My comment on "annuls" was meant facetiously.

Joel

At 5/28/2012 02:43 PM, Jonathan Lighter wrote:
>"Annuls" seems clearly to be a misspelling and misapprehension of "annals,"
>as Larry notes. But "annals"  in the usual sense doesn't apply here, no
>matter how spelled.
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>Here it seems to mean something like 'stages or vicissitudes,' to a writer
>with extremely limited powers of expression, considering his or her
>job.  The phrase "in the annals of X" is so cliche' in entertainment
>writing that it presumably popped unbidden into the writer's mind and
>seemed "good enough" because he didn't know exactly what an "annal/ annul"
>was in the first place.
>
>JL
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>On Mon, May 28, 2012 at 12:37 PM, Joel S. Berson <Berson at att.net> wrote:
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> > At 5/28/2012 11:58 AM, Jonathan Lighter wrote:
> > > From Knology's current on-demand movie summaries. Go figure:
> > >
> > >"3  MUSKETEERS, THE (2011) D'Artagnan (Logan Lernan) and three of France's
> > >most elite warriors battle to unfoil a conspiracy."
> >
> > "Unfold", with a sense of "uncover, disclose, reveal"?
> >
> >
> > >"SPORK (2011) A film about a pink-cheeked, frizzy-haired outcast named
> > >SPORK who is trying to navigate her way through the annuls of Junior High.
> > >Starring Savannah Stehlin, Sydney, Park, Rachel G. Fox."
> >
> > The yearly chronicles of expulsions?
> >
> > Joel
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