Hot Gossip - 13 February 2023
A Way with Words - language, linguistics, and callers from all over
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Unfolded - It's Unfolding
Un doesn't have to mean a reversal. It can simply mean not or the absence of a condition. Sometimes that un is about a comparison to expectations. An un-opened tomb, you know, T-O-M-B, was once open. But by comparisons to our expectations that tombs usually remain closed after their contents are put in, we consider it unopened. If we call something an unopened door, it means we haven't opened it yet,. Although circumstances might indicate that we will soon or should have already opened it. So it's all about expectations here.
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