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OK, let's try again: I will note, however, in my contranimic way, that That was just preliminary and can, for purposes of exegesisating myself, be ignored. Now, on to the meat of the sentence: the meaning for notoriety is used in two ways 1: as used in the NPR item referred to and 2: as used in the sense that Philip Davich would prefer These two ways: are not exactly polar opposites.
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"that the meaning for notoriety as used in the NPR item referred to and the sense that Philip Davich would prefer are not exactly polar opposites."
'that the meaning for notority as ( used ) in the NPR item referred to -
and the sense that Philip Davich would prefer are not exactly polar opposites.'
Somehow, when I take the 'used' out, it all reads clear to me.
Last edited by BranShea; 12/10/09 04:14 PM. Reason: what's the use?
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Just another case proving that one is least capable of finding one's own garden path sentences.
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Garden path sentences. Wel, I did try but never mind. Give me a garden path any time. link Best solution: monepics.
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WOW--you really appreciate (and I mean that in its fullest sense) nature, don't you? [impressed as all get out e]
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Somehow, when I take the 'used' out, it all reads clear to me. Brilliant  ! How often, in an effort to make things clearer, we add something instead of leaving something out.
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The use of the word in the NPR story, though, is synonymous with "popularity" or "celebrity".
I blame txt-thumbers, non-native Anglophones, laxicographers, linguine technocrats, semantic smearistas, and Sapirian drifters for this level-4 state. Communication is impossible, ceases, and the English, she is ruined. Coffee + keyboard = not good combination.
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