Re: LW again -- Noun and verb

Quoting John Cowan <jcowan@...>:

> Thomas R. Wier scripsit:
>
> > In linguistic terminology, yes.  That does not ensure that everyone
> > will immediately recognize it, however.  (I have a professor who's
> > very fond of the word "desideratum/a", but at first only those of us
> > in his class with a classical education understood what he was talking
> > about.)
>
> Actually, I think the pl. if not the sg. is fairly well known
> at least from the well-known wall poster of that name ("Go placidly
> amid the noise & haste" etc.)
Also true.  But in this particular class, there were a number for
whom its meaning was not obviously meaningful.

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