two postings with some ADS-L history

[Jonathan Lighter]

The monster has been called "Frankenstein" by millions for many decades.

Good enough for non-prescriptive me.

Anyway, the monster was Dr. Frankenstein's artificial son (ask any feminist
critic), so his name was Frankenstein too.

And maybe "Frankenstorm" is really short for "Frankenstein's monster
storm." Not just any "monster storm," if you see what I'm saying.

JL

On Sun, Oct 28, 2012 at 11:23 AM, Joel S. Berson <Berson at att.net> wrote:

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> At 10/28/2012 09:17 AM, Arnold Zwicky wrote:
> >... on my blog:
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> >http://arnoldzwicky.wordpress.com/2012/10/27/the-upcoming-storm/
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> >on Frankenstorm, etc.
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> Thanks for letting the whole Interverse know what
> I do when the World Series is in
> hiatus!  :-)  But I enjoyed this writeup anyway.
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> 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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