Re: Derived adpositions (< Linguistic term for ease of changing word-class)
| From: | R A Brown <ray@...> |
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| Date: | Friday, August 15, 2008, 6:17 |
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Eugene Oh wrote:
> Perhaps "nonetheless", "notwithstanding", "nevertheless" were ahead of their
> time in descriptivity ;)
"nonetheless" looks to me suspiciously like a calque of Classical Latin
"nihilominus" which, I guess, puts it way ahead of its time :)
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Ray
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