oversouling

[Laurence Horn]

At 10:06 PM -0500 2/8/11, ronbutters at AOL.COM wrote:
>I thought it was a reference to the religious views of Ralph Waldo Emerson.
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Or quasi-religious.  Transcendental, anyway.  And
as such, it's a calque of the German Überseele.
But I'm not sure that the verbal/participial
"oversouled" is directly linked to the nominal
"oversoul".  And they're both distinct from the
more down to earth "oversole" of the cobbler.

LH

>On Feb 8, 2011, at 8:35 PM, Wilson Gray <hwgray at GMAIL.COM> wrote:
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>>  On Tue, Feb 8, 2011 at 8:02 PM, James Harbeck <jharbeck at sympatico.ca> wrote:
>>>  "singing" "the national anthem"
>>
>>  Well, I've often said that the use of melisma in singing should be
>>  restricted in its use to singers of observable, known, or claimed
>>  sub-Saharan-African descent.
>>
>>  In the case cited, WRT to Ms. Aguilera, it's not clear whether that
>>  rule should have been enforced. It's been bandied about in gossip mags
>>  and on gossip sites that there's a strong possibility of a nigger her
>>  ancestral woodpile. If that rumor  be true, well, if she wants to get
>>  down with the colored people and blow melismatic sound, well, she has
>>  a right.
>>
>>  --
>>  -Wilson
>>  ---
>>  All say, "How hard it is that we have to die!"--a strange complaint to
>>  come from the mouths of people who have had to live.
>>  -Mark Twain
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