[Ads-l] Kellyanne's morhpology

Herb Stahlke hfwstahlke at GMAIL.COM
Tue May 16 02:20:11 UTC 2017


Yesterday Kellyanne Conway complained about the Left's "Trumpist and
sexist" tone in their criticism of Trump.  The -ist on Trumpist has the odd
sense of anti-, a sense not found in the OED entry.  She seems to be
analogizing on the form "sexist" without any sense of the change in
meaning.

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