"not so much"

[Jonathan Lighter]

As a suggestion of how "recent" the past fifteen years are on the scale
of linguistic history, recall that the period of "Modern English" is said to
have begun around 1500.

Also, at my age, *anything* that's happened in the last fifteen or twenty
years is ridiculously recent!

JL


On Mon, Dec 13, 2010 at 7:08 PM, victor steinbok <aardvark66 at gmail.com>wrote:

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> Yes, it's recent usage. It's been discussed here, I believe--and, if I
> am aware of it, it must have been within the last two years, at most.
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> VS-)
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> On Mon, Dec 13, 2010 at 6:55 PM, Jonathan Lighter
> <wuxxmupp2000 at gmail.com> wrote:
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> > I don't understand what you don't understand.
> >
> > This is a recent usage (maybe two usages) that has gone unnoticed by
> > lexicographers or dialectologists.
> >
> > Good enough for me.
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