Conversion by truncation (Was Re: No "damage"?)

[Laurence Horn]

On Sep 13, 2011, at 11:17 AM, Arnold Zwicky wrote:

> On Sep 13, 2011, at 7:45 AM, Larry Horn wrote:
> 
>> Maybe so, but that didn't stop "privates" from ending up with two rather different meanings as a truncated convert.  Presumably context will disambiguate here, as they would be with "All the privates were on display".
>> 
>> LH
> 
> even better: "His privates were on display".
> 
Or, as a caption for a newsreel segment:  "Privates on Display"

LH

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