[Ads-l] "disappear" as a transitive verb

Jonathan Lighter wuxxmupp2000 at GMAIL.COM
Wed Aug 26 19:18:30 UTC 2020


Heller goes into _deja-vu_ in some detail, as well as _presque-vu_ and
_jamais-vu_ - all of which are worth experiencing.

JL

On Wed, Aug 26, 2020 at 3:10 PM Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at yale.edu>
wrote:

> Thanks! I was just going to try to see if I could pull up the instance I
> recalled from Catch-22, but I see I don’t need to.  I’m always having these
> “déjà lu” moments on the list, and then someone (often named Ben) finds the
> relevant way-back thread.
>
> > On Aug 26, 2020, at 3:03 PM, Barretts Mail <mail.barretts at GMAIL.COM>
> wrote:
> >
> > Here is some more on this. BB
> > http://listserv.linguistlist.org/pipermail/ads-l/2013-March/126192.html
> <http://listserv.linguistlist.org/pipermail/ads-l/2013-March/126192.html>
> > http://listserv.linguistlist.org/pipermail/ads-l/2013-March/126196.html
> <http://listserv.linguistlist.org/pipermail/ads-l/2013-March/126196.html>
> >
> >
> >> On 26 Aug 2020, at 11:41, James Landau <
> 00000c13e57d49b8-dmarc-request at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU> wrote:
> >>
> >> In a mass email from one Scott Roberts at colorofchange.org, the
> heading was "Tampa police tried to disappear this Black woman".
> >> |
> >> |  |
> >>
> >>
> >> James Landau
> >> jjjrlandau at netscape.com
> >>
> >
> >
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