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

[Wilson Gray]

On Tue, Sep 13, 2011 at 8:25 AM, Jonathan Lighter
<wuxxmupp2000 at gmail.com> wrote:
> But the difference is that "collateral," n., already has a well-recognized
> meaning, making the truncated "collateral (damage)" seem semantically weird.
>

I'm not crazy?!

Thank you, Jon!

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