etymological = "semantic"
Cohen, Gerald Leonard
gcohen at UMR.EDU
Thu Jul 5 18:34:26 UTC 2007
Yes. Greek "etymos" means "true," and so the writer seems to be speaking of *truly* eternal youth --- eternal youth in its truest sense.
Gerald Cohen
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From: American Dialect Society on behalf of Laurence Horn
Sent: Thu 7/5/2007 12:52 PM
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Subject: Re: etymological = "semantic"
At 10:46 AM -0700 7/5/07, Jonathan Lighter wrote:
>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.
>
> I'm not even sure what "etymological" eternal youth would mean.
>
> JL
or maybe = "literal", now that "literal" no longer means 'literal'?
LH
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