[Ads-l] new meaning for "secret"?

[Margaret Winters]

I agree with Dan - though the line between the two readings is a bit fuzzy.  I don't think I've heard a clear example of really meaning 'notably also' and not 'more important and not as obvious'.


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MARGARET E WINTERS
Former Provost
Professor Emerita - French and Linguistics
Wayne State University
Detroit, MI  48202

mewinters at wayne.edu



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Sent: Thursday, February 8, 2018 11:47 AM
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Subject: Re: new meaning for "secret"?

I read this differently.

Q: What is this story about?
A: the Holocaust
Q: But what is it really about?
A: It is really an interspecies love story between Jessica [Chastain]
and the animals.

I can't read "really" above to mean "notably also", more like "more
important, but not so obvious".

On Feb 8, 2018 11:08 AM, "Jonathan Lighter" <wuxxmupp2000 at gmail.com> wrote:

How about the new meaning of "really," i.e., "notably also."

Director Niki Caro says that _The Zookeeper's Wife_, which is about the
Holocaust, is "really an interspecies love story between Jessica [Chastain]
and the animals."

https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/zookeepers-wife-
animal-whisperer-jessica-chastain-charmed-real-elephant-201825640.html

JL

On Thu, Feb 8, 2018 at 11:00 AM, Ben Zimmer <bgzimmer at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Thu, Feb 8, 2018 at 10:06 AM, James A. Landau <JJJRLandau at netscape.com>
> wrote:
>
> > The Andrew Janz for Congress campaign (Fresno, California) sent out an
> > email that reads:
> >
> > "ADD YOUR NAME to the secret memo we’re delivering straight to Nunes’s
> > Washington D.C. office"
> >
> > If it's being publicly delivered to Congressman Nunes's office, I can't
> > see how it can be "secret".
> >
> > The email is not specific but suggests the memo reads "YOU'RE FIRED"
> >
>
> They're clearly playing off the relentlessly hyped "secret memo" that
Nunes
> himself drafted, which was then declassified. I think this is just a way
to
> tell Nunes, "I got a 'secret memo' for you right here, buddy."
>
> --bgz
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