reviewuated
Herb Stahlke
HSTAHLKE at GW.BSU.EDU
Wed Oct 11 19:26:54 UTC 2000
I'm surrounded by many who will find joy in Larry's null result.
They're the same ones who grudgingly tolerate "chortle," and only
because it's found in a decent piece of Victorian literature.
Herb
>>> laurence.horn at YALE.EDU 10/11/00 02:12AM >>>
At 2:03 PM -0500 10/11/00, Herb Stahlke wrote:
>As hilarious as this blend is, I can't help wondering what need
it
>fills. Obviously the writers didn't find either "review" or
>"evaluate" satisfactory. I can sort of understand that with
the
>stockrocket reference, but it's a little harder with the child
>custody example. Given those two, though, I'm surprised there
are
>just two hits on the Web. Has anyone searched Lexis? We don't
>have general access to it here.
>
>Herb
>
I just checked Nexis, all available dates and full text options,
and
found no hits on "review(u)ate(d)". Some, no doubt, would find
in
this a hopeful sign for the future of the language.
larry
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