"dominating" = "utterly submissive, ineffectual"

[Joel S. Berson]

At 1/21/2013 10:18 AM, Jonathan Lighter wrote:
>Another reversal, possibly via "overwhelming."

Overwhelming vs. overwhelmed; dominating vs. dominated.

Joel


>JL
>
>On Mon, Jan 21, 2013 at 9:43 AM, Joel S. Berson <Berson at att.net> wrote:
>
> > ---------------------- Information from the mail header
> > -----------------------
> > Sender:       American Dialect Society <ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU>
> > Poster:       "Joel S. Berson" <Berson at ATT.NET>
> > Subject:      "dominating" = "utterly submissive, ineffectual"
> >
> >
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> >
> > "There will be plenty of pieces of the blame pie to go around after
> > the Patriots' sudden, stunning, and dominating 28-13 loss to the
> > Ravens in Sunday night's AFC Championship game at Gillette Stadium."
> >
> > Boston Globe sports columnist Greg A. Bedard, "On Football", in today's
> > issue.
> >
> > Joel
> >
> > ------------------------------------------------------------
> > The American Dialect Society - http://www.americandialect.org
> >
>
>
>
>--
>"If the truth is half as bad as I think it is, you can't handle the truth."
>
>------------------------------------------------------------
>The American Dialect Society - http://www.americandialect.org

------------------------------------------------------------
The American Dialect Society - http://www.americandialect.org