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

[Jonathan Lighter]

I've seen the movie twice.

The "interspecies love story" (such as it is) is only barely relevant to
the actual "real" story.

JL

On Thu, Feb 8, 2018 at 12:05 PM, Margaret Winters <mewinters at wayne.edu>
wrote:

> 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
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> 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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