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What I learned about E.R. wait times and parking lots this week
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<blockquote data-quote="Levon" data-source="post: 341361" data-attributes="member: 1270"><p>For me, "gaslit" may please the lexicographers but it leaps clear back to the 19th century when gas light was merely a useful technology everyone wanted to have. I would rather use "gaslighted" in order to make it clear that I'm intending to draw my meaning from the 1938 play and the subsequent movie. Without offering any more examples, I think that when we reincarnate archaic words to denote a more modern concept, we need to have ways to encode "modern meaning" so as to avoid confusion.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Levon, post: 341361, member: 1270"] For me, "gaslit" may please the lexicographers but it leaps clear back to the 19th century when gas light was merely a useful technology everyone wanted to have. I would rather use "gaslighted" in order to make it clear that I'm intending to draw my meaning from the 1938 play and the subsequent movie. Without offering any more examples, I think that when we reincarnate archaic words to denote a more modern concept, we need to have ways to encode "modern meaning" so as to avoid confusion. [/QUOTE]
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