Re: Flammable (was: Early Conlang Archives)
From: | John Cowan <cowan@...> |
Date: | Friday, March 12, 1999, 15:24 |
Raymond A. Brown wrote:
> The word seems to be falling into disuse here even in the metaphorical use
> where 'inflammatory' is the usual word.
So "inflammatory" now covers both parts of the correlation of
"inflammatory rhetoric", that which inflames, vs. "inflammable multitude",
that which is inflamed?
--
John Cowan http://www.ccil.org/~cowan cowan@ccil.org
You tollerday donsk? N. You tolkatiff scowegian? Nn.
You spigotty anglease? Nnn. You phonio saxo? Nnnn.
Clear all so! 'Tis a Jute.... (Finnegans Wake 16.5)