etymological = "semantic"

[Scot LaFaive]

You must not be an uptown girl then.

Scot LaFaive



>From: Jonathan Lighter <wuxxmupp2000 at YAHOO.COM>
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>Date: Thu, 5 Jul 2007 10:46:07 -0700
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>2007 _New Yorker_ (July 2) 25: [T]he gang of uptown "girls" (this breed of
>woman seeks not only cosmetic but etymological eternal youth)...function as
>a kind of pedicured Greek chorus.
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>   I'm not even sure what "etymological" eternal youth would mean.
>
>   JL
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