[Ads-l] new meaning for "secret"?

[Jonathan Lighter]

How about the new meaning of "really," i.e., "notably also."

Director Niki Caro says that _The Zookeeper's Wife_, which is about the
Holocaust, is "really an interspecies love story between Jessica [Chastain]
and the animals."

https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/zookeepers-wife-animal-whisperer-jessica-chastain-charmed-real-elephant-201825640.html

JL

On Thu, Feb 8, 2018 at 11:00 AM, Ben Zimmer <bgzimmer at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Thu, Feb 8, 2018 at 10:06 AM, James A. Landau <JJJRLandau at netscape.com>
> wrote:
>
> > The Andrew Janz for Congress campaign (Fresno, California) sent out an
> > email that reads:
> >
> > "ADD YOUR NAME to the secret memo we’re delivering straight to Nunes’s
> > Washington D.C. office"
> >
> > If it's being publicly delivered to Congressman Nunes's office, I can't
> > see how it can be "secret".
> >
> > The email is not specific but suggests the memo reads "YOU'RE FIRED"
> >
>
> They're clearly playing off the relentlessly hyped "secret memo" that Nunes
> himself drafted, which was then declassified. I think this is just a way to
> tell Nunes, "I got a 'secret memo' for you right here, buddy."
>
> --bgz
>
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