[Ads-l] exorbitant/absorbent mixup

[Laurence Horn]

> On May 2, 2019, at 2:02 PM, Arnold M. Zwicky <zwicky at STANFORD.EDU> wrote:
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>>> 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:
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>>> "Scholarly work without the typically absorbent academic price tag."
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> 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.

Some of those products are designed for library or foreign markets, which are known to have different standards of absorption than those products intended for personal use.

LH 
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