Still pumpin' 'em out after all these years

[Jonathan Lighter]

They're "new" not for being "recently created" but for being "previously
unknown."

Me: "Look, Mr. Darwin! I've found another new species!"

He: "You moron! That species must be a hundred million years old!"

Me: "Funny - he doesn't look a day over fifty thousand."

JL

JL


On Wed, Feb 5, 2014 at 9:53 AM, Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at yale.edu>wrote:

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> poems newly discovered ==> new poems discovered
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> Maybe related to "an occasional passerby" or "raised an inquisitive
> eyebrow", a construction that Arnold could identify for us...
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> ...Just checked, and in fact Arnold already did, in reference to
> extramarital toes being sucked 7 years ago:
> http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/005186.html
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> It's called "displaced epithet" or "hypallage".  Not quite the same as
> Sappho's new poems being discovered, but a constructional cousin.
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> LH
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> On Feb 5, 2014, at 8:09 AM, Jonathan Lighter wrote:
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> > "Old poems" would have been more accurate, but then nobody would give a
> > ****.
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> > JL
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> > On Wed, Feb 5, 2014 at 5:54 AM, W Brewer <brewerwa at gmail.com> wrote:
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> >> <<Two new poems written by seventh-century BC Greek poet Sappho are
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