changes in word meanings

[Tim Frazer]

What is SALON?

----- Original Message -----
From: James Smith <jsmithjamessmith at YAHOO.COM>
To: <ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU>
Sent: Friday, August 18, 2000 2:19 PM
Subject: Re: changes in word meanings


> --- Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at YALE.EDU> wrote:
> > At 10:32 AM -0700 8/18/00, James Smith wrote:
> > >I read a quote from someone that said, in effect,
> > that
> > >as the meaning of words change, people become
> > >frustrated and angry that they have lost the means
> > of
> > >expressing themselves.  Of course the quote I'm
> > >looking for is much more succinct.  Does this ring
> > any
> > >bells with anyone?
> > >
> > What an awful, pompous, artificial thing to say.
> :)
>
> The quote I'm looking for was brought to mind by the
> responses of Mike Salovesh and Lynne Murphy to  Gavin
> McNett's review of Suzanne Romaine and Daniel Nettle's
> _Vanishing Languages_ in Salon.
>
>
>
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