Outing Hamlet [was: out-Xing X]

[Joel S. Berson]

At 1/21/2010 10:29 AM, Jesse Sheidlower wrote:
>On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 10:25:14AM -0500, David Barnhart wrote:
> > I saw in this morning's NYT (p B13) the use of "out-iPhones the iPhone."
> > Would somebody please guide me to some linguistically sound discussion of
> > this.
>
>Apart from _Hamlet_?

Jesse, did you mean "the time is out of joint", or "Out, out, thou
Strumpet-Fortune", or something else?  Or perhaps _Macbeth_'s "out,
out, damned spot"?  I suppose if Soren Kierkegaard could write "Last
evening Shakespeare's glorious masterpiece, _The School for Scandal_,
was performed for the first time", one can forgive Jesse (or me) for
a little confusion.  :-)

Joel

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