[Ads-l] indulgent = 'self-indulgent'
Wilson Gray
hwgray at GMAIL.COM
Thu Mar 12 19:04:33 UTC 2015
On Thu, Mar 12, 2015 at 10:05 AM, Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at yale.edu>
wrote:
> I'm still more used to seeing "self-indulgent" for this meaning
Isn't that beside Jon's point: that he has found a literary coelacanth?
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