[Ads-l] _co-ed_: obsolete?

[Wilson Gray]

> naked co-ed volleyball:

rude, crude, and in the nude

unless it's

rough, tough, and in the buff.

On Fri, Apr 20, 2018 at 8:44 PM, Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at yale.edu>
wrote:

> Obsolete, or at least obsolescent, as a noun, not as an adjective.  Note
> too that the noun, like “blonde”, denotes just women with blond hair, while
> the adjective is not so restricted:
>
> noun: co-ed
>         • 1.
> a female student at a co-educational institution.
>
> adjective: co-ed
>         • 1.
> (of an institution or system) co-educational.
>
>
> So, co-ed soccer, co-ed dance tryouts, co-ed institution, naked co-ed
> volleyball: sí “a coed”, “coeds”, etc.: no.
>
> LH
>
>
> > On Apr 20, 2018, at 4:35 PM, Wilson Gray <hwgray at GMAIL.COM> wrote:
> >
> > Narrator providing background WRT UC Santa Cruz and Cabrillo College:
> >
> > "The female students are called 'co-eds'."
> >
> > Well, of course. Everybody knows that "Betty Co-ed has lips of red for
> > Harvard," even though, during the years in which the relevant song was
> > popular, there were no co-eds at Harvard.
> >
> > --
> > -Wilson
> > -----
> > All say, "How hard it is that we have to die!"---a strange complaint to
> > come from the mouths of people who have had to live.
> > -Mark Twain
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-- 
-Wilson
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All say, "How hard it is that we have to die!"---a strange complaint to
come from the mouths of people who have had to live.
-Mark Twain

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