[Ads-l] exorbitant/absorbent mixup

[Arnold M. Zwicky]

>> From: American Dialect Society <ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU> on behalf of Stephen Goranson <goranson at DUKE.EDU>
>> Sent: Thursday, May 2, 2019 10:30 AM
>> To: ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU
>> Subject: exorbitant/absorbent mixup
>> 
>> From a book review (of 1 Enoch, trans.) at amazon:
>> 
>> "Scholarly work without the typically absorbent academic price tag."

i've been off in a fog, musing about how to rate particular academic price tags as light, regular, super, super plus, and ultra absorbency.  there are a lot of ultra absorbent price tags out there, especially in the handbook and Festschrift emporia.

arnold

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