[Ads-l] "slaves" and "enslaved [persons]" revisited

[Arnold M. Zwicky]

> On Apr 16, 2016, at 1:16 PM, Christopher Philippo <toff at MAC.COM> wrote:
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> On Apr 16, 2016, at 3:08 PM, Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at YALE.EDU> wrote:
>> It seemed to me that in some places the substitution would work fairly naturally, in others not so much. 
> 
> Aside from that, when it comes to the NYT print edition they’re possibly keeping column inches in mind, and they’re probably not going to do different versions for print and online.

about the print and on-line versions: for headlines, the two are almost never the same.  when i post on NYT stories, especially obits, i end up giving both versions, which often give different kinds of information.

arnold


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