semantic drif t: "scream" (UNCLASSIFIED)

[George Thompson]

There's also "a scream [of laughter]"  Have you met her?  She's a scream.  Or, That movie is a scream.

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George A. Thompson
Author of A Documentary History of "The African Theatre", Northwestern Univ. Pr., 1998, but nothing much lately.

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From: "Mullins, Bill AMRDEC" <Bill.Mullins at US.ARMY.MIL>
Date: Monday, October 15, 2007 11:19 am
Subject: Re: semantic drif              t:  "scream" (UNCLASSIFIED)
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> Classification:  UNCLASSIFIED
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> >   The only other advertising example of "scream" I can recall
> > that was plainly intended to carry positive connotations was
> > the sports car ad in Playboy in the mid sixties that
> > asserted, "We made it hot! Now you can make it scream!"
> >
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> I don't think that "scream" meaning "fast" is all that uncommon.
> I remember buying a computer about 1990 that was a "screamer".
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