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[Neal Whitman]

Heard in a storytelling podcast, a science writer for Discover and other magazines telling about working from home, and mentioning the office where she would "science-write".

Ben, does Carl have "science-write" as a finite verb?

Neal

On 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.
>
> 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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