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Old 10-09-2003   #4 (permalink)
ryberg
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SWEDISH GUY LOOKING TO BARTEND
Incidentally, nice little lexical back formation there:

V to tend (bar) => N bartender => new V to bartend

(to housekeep, to bookmark, etc)

Now you see why some of us who leave my old field occasionally introduce themselves as "recovering linguists."

Steve
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