[Corpora-List] Moving Lexical Semantics from Alchemy to Science

Fri Jan 28 13:35:32 UTC 2011

Moral holiday? Pathetic fallacy?

Jim 

James Vanden Bosch       
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>>> "Magnar Brekke" <Magnar.Brekke at nhh.no> 1/28/2011 6:28 AM >>>
My particular favorite was provided by BBC Radio 4 many years ago:
"a mentally retarded services director"

Magnar Brekke
NHH-em.

Fra: corpora-bounces at uib.no på vegne av Justin Washtell
Sendt: fr 28.01.2011 11:41
Til: David Wible; John Williams
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Emne: Re: [Corpora-List] Moving Lexical Semantics from Alchemy to Science

Nice example! :-)

Justin Washtell
University of Leeds

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Subject: Re: [Corpora-List] Moving Lexical Semantics from Alchemy to Science

How about 'heavy metal fans'?

David

On Thu, Jan 27, 2011 at 7:57 PM, John Williams
<j0hnwh0ever.corpora at gmail.com<mailto:j0hnwh0ever.corpora at gmail.com>> wrote:

... P.S. Anyone have some other ambiguous open compounds they are familiar
with, besides 'solar system'?

'golf club' springs to mind

j0hn

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