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Re: Derived adpositions (< Linguistic term for ease of changing word-class)

From:R A Brown <ray@...>
Date:Friday, August 15, 2008, 6:17
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 :) -- Ray ================================== http://www.carolandray.plus.com ================================== Frustra fit per plura quod potest fieri per pauciora. [William of Ockham]

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Eugene Oh <un.doing@...>