Essays On English
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This Gallic second- ary meaning will probably force itself into our yielding Anglo-Saxon, and we shall have here- after the privilege of employing to intrigue in either of two different intents. I doubt if this will be to the profit of the language.
114 THE LATEST NOVELTIES IN LANGUAGE It is both futile and foolish for the respecter of the ancient landmarks of language to deny that an old word can have any other than its original content. The real meaning of a word is what it means now to those... who utter it and to those who hear it, and not what it meant to their mothers. "There are few true sjTiom5Tns in literature, none perhaps," said Dr. Clifford Allbut in his illiuninating 'Notes on the Com- position of Scientific Papers,' and he added that "words have not only their stem meanings, but carry upon them also many changes and tinctures of past uses, which blend inevitably in our sentences. The word apostate, for example, means far more than an absentee or a dissenter, and a muscle is much more than a little mouse; monks rarely live alone; your anecdote is any- thing but clandestine; rivals contend for other than water-rights; and hypocrites are no longer confined to the theater." And we cannot doubt that there were pedants who foresaw the impending degradation and the ultimate destruction of English if apostate and muscle, anecdote and rival were not each of them cribbed, cabined and confined to the single meaning justified by their derivation.
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This Gallic second- ary meaning will probably force itself into our yielding Anglo-Saxon, and we shall have here- after the privilege of employing to intrigue in either of two different intents. I doubt if this will be to the profit of the language.
114 THE LATEST NOVELTIES IN LANGUAGE It is both futile and foolish for the respecter of the ancient landmarks of language to deny that an old word can have any other than its original content. The real meaning of a word is what it means now to those... who utter it and to those who hear it, and not what it meant to their mothers. "There are few true sjTiom5Tns in literature, none perhaps," said Dr. Clifford Allbut in his illiuninating 'Notes on the Com- position of Scientific Papers,' and he added that "words have not only their stem meanings, but carry upon them also many changes and tinctures of past uses, which blend inevitably in our sentences. The word apostate, for example, means far more than an absentee or a dissenter, and a muscle is much more than a little mouse; monks rarely live alone; your anecdote is any- thing but clandestine; rivals contend for other than water-rights; and hypocrites are no longer confined to the theater." And we cannot doubt that there were pedants who foresaw the impending degradation and the ultimate destruction of English if apostate and muscle, anecdote and rival were not each of them cribbed, cabined and confined to the single meaning justified by their derivation.
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