Alexander Haig, continued

[Alison Murie]

On Feb 21, 2010, at 11:16 AM, Arnold Zwicky wrote:

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> On Feb 21, 2010, at 7:27 AM, Bill Palmer wrote:
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>> The rest of the Guardian piece:...
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> some of the innovations in the parody look like nonce-formations,
> while others have some currency (Haig's verbing of "caveat" is in the
> OED, though marked as obsolete when transitive -- but in fact,
> transitive "caveat" is now quite common, and useful). i haven't spent
> the time going through the items one by one, but i suspect that the
> verbings "context" and "obstacle" and the nouning "invent" are out
> there.
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> of course, this density of innovations is just outrageous.
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> arnold
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