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Entrenchment: “Befriend” vs. “friend”
In “Old words, new meanings,” I talked a little about how words can come to occupy semantic niches; really, this is just the question of how words can come to express the meanings that they express. The idea is that … Continue reading
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Tagged Dictionaries, Emergence, Etymology, Facebook, Friendship, Language, Linguistics, Nelson Goodman, Social network, Social Sciences, Word
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