Date:    Tue, 7 Apr 1998 13:38:39 -0500
<br>From:    Mark Mandel <Mark[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]DRAGONSYS.COM>
<br>Subject: more on non-negative "un"
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<br>I found this in the "Selling It" section of the March, 1995 issue of _Consumer
<br>Reports_ while clearing out (p. 211 = inside back cover):
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<br> Oh. So you'll refreeze our pipes?
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<br>Perhaps Brown's Certified Welding should have thawed out this wording a little
<br>more.
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<br>(Photo of ad evidently clipped from newspaper):
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<br>            BROWN'S
<br>        CERTIFIED WELDING
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<br>     PORTABLE WELDING EQUIPMENT
<br>   PIPE - HEAVY EQUIPMENT - STEEL WORK
<br> REASONABLE RATES, RUTLAND AREA COVERED!!
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<br> PIPE UNTHAWING  <----[largest lettering in the whole ad]
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<br>Presumably this was meant, but not read, as the same non-negative
<br>"un-" as in "unravel", "unloose", and "unpeel", with the sense of
<br>'release, un[either sense!]bind'.
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<br>       Mark A. Mandel : Senior Linguist : mark[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]dragonsys.com
<br>    Dragon Systems, Inc. : speech recognition : +1 617 796-0267
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