Re: I'm new!

On Wed, Oct 25, 2000 at 06:34:23AM -0400, The Gray Wizard wrote:
[snip]
> I wonder if there is a real equivalence between "short story" and "hot dog"?
> Certainly "long short story" is a bit more aberrant for me than "cold hot
> dog".  Perhaps that is because a "hot dog" is a "hot dog" even before it's
> cooked, i.e. before it's hot.  The term is no longer associated with or
> characterized by being hot.  Nor is it "a dog that is hot."   However, a
> "short story" is still defined as a "story which is short".  A "long short
> story", therefore goes against the norm.
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To me, I just parse it as a partitive, a "long (short story)" -- i.e., the
relatively longer story among the class of short stories.


T