one more "reveal"

Arnold Zwicky zwicky at STANFORD.EDU
Tue Feb 7 22:17:58 UTC 2012


On Feb 7, 2012, at 12:10 PM, Victor Steinbok wrote:
>
> One more meant "one more example", not a new meaning. I've
> overemphasized the "newness". That was not my intent.

> On 2/7/2012 9:32 AM, Arnold Zwicky wrote:

>>  ... the Samsung quotation is right in line with this development, and i wouldn't think of it as *one more "reveal"*, unless we count each new context as providing a new sense.

ah.  since i knew that there were now thousands, if not millions, of examples, i assumed there was not much point in providing one more, so i thought you must have been saying more.

arnold

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