Random Note for WOTY: #19

ADSGarson O'Toole adsgarsonotoole at GMAIL.COM
Thu Dec 26 22:29:01 UTC 2013


There was an ADS mailing lis thread on "X Strong" in May 2013. Ben
wrote up a nice analysis in the Boston Globe and Visual Thesarus:

> Date: May 18, 2013
> Poster:  Ben Zimmer
> Subject:      Re: "Boston Strong"
> I wrote a column for the Boston Globe, and a Word Routes followup, on
> "Boston Strong" and its predecessors:
>
> http://b.globe.com/strongbz
> http://www.visualthesaurus.com/cm/wordroutes/an-army-of-strong-slogans/
>
> Thanks to Hugo and the other participants in this thread for their
> contributions.
>
> --bgz

On Thu, Dec 26, 2013 at 5:08 PM, Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at yale.edu> wrote:
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> Subject:      Re: Random Note for WOTY: #19
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> On Dec 26, 2013, at 4:56 PM, David Barnhart wrote:
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>> From the earlier part of 2013: _strong_ applied to the aftermath of a
>> tragedy.  (e.g. Boston strong)
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> When did this start?  ABC World News with Diane Sawyer has been running an occasional segment for ages (well before Boston Strong) called "America Strong", without any specific aftermath of tragedy that I can think of (it didn't go back nearly as far as 9/11, for example).  It has more to do with creating jobs in the U.S., buying American, avoiding imports, etc.  Well, I suppose you could claim that it's in the aftermath of the tragedy of the financial meltdown, but they don't make that explicit.
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> LH
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>> Regards,
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>> David
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>> barnhart at highlands.com
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