[Ads-l] P.S.

[Laurence Horn]

> On Aug 27, 2018, at 1:54 PM, Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at yale.edu> wrote:
> 
> 
>> On Aug 27, 2018, at 1:49 PM, Mark Mandel <mark.a.mandel at GMAIL.COM> wrote:
>> 
>> (The original) Homer's "wine-dark sea" was also the "testicle-shrinking
>> sea": a fact that students are unlikely to encounter unless they are
>> reading him in Greek, or at least studying the language.
>> 
>> Μάρκος
> 
> Which also reminds us of another word connected to a single provenance:
> 
> “Shrinkage” (George Costanza)
> 

cf. “sponge-worthy” (Elaine Benes)
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