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What Is in a Word? What Is in a Word?
Literature, art, history—they all have something in common, and that is they are based on recycling . (We are not.) Yet, we do have something equally worth talking about, and that is our capacity to mulply what we see, what we read, what we listen to. We rely on polysemy, or the existence of many meanings. NeoLan polysēmia, equivalent to Late Lan polysēm (us ) with many significaons (< Greek polýsēmos, equivalent to poly- + m ( a ) sign + -os adj. suffix) Literature, art, history—they all have something in common, and that is they are based on recycling . (We are not.) Yet, we do have something equally worth talking about, and that is our capacity to mulply what we see, what we read, what we listen to. We rely on polysemy, or the existence of many meanings. NeoLan polysēmia, equivalent to Late Lan polysēm (us ) with many significaons (< Greek polýsēmos, equivalent to poly- + m ( a ) sign + -os adj. suffix)
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