two postings with some ADS-L history

[Joel S. Berson]

At 10/28/2012 09:17 AM, Arnold Zwicky wrote:
>... on my blog:
>
>http://arnoldzwicky.wordpress.com/2012/10/27/the-upcoming-storm/
>
>on Frankenstorm, etc.

Thanks for letting the whole Interverse know what
I do when the World Series is in
hiatus!  :-)  But I enjoyed this writeup anyway.

Arnold writes "(The NWS engages here in the usual
confusion between the name of the creator of the
creature ­ Frankenstein in Shelley ­ and the name
for the creature.)"  I don't think it's quite
that blatant -- they wrote "ALONG THE LINES OF
“FRANKENSTORM”, AN ALLUSION TO MARY SHELLEY’S
GOTHIC CREATURE OF SYNTHESIZED ELEMENTS."  An
allusion is not an identity, and a purist could
take "Frankenstorm" as "the storm created by (Dr.) Frankenstein."

Joel

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