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echo: startrek
to: RITA SMITH
from: BILL NICHOLS
date: 1998-04-02 20:23:00
subject: Caretaker

RS> BN> Nope, extra means "out of" or "apart from," same as intra means
RS> BN> within, as in "intranet" or "intramural."  [Never mess with a guy
RS> BN> who does words for a living. ]
RS> My dictionary must be outdated. It says "extra" means "additional".
Not outdated, in fact more likely the reverse, only including a
single common current usage.   [See message to Maureen
for elaboration. :)]
RS> BN> The "additional"  concept of the connotation
RS> BN> in-additional as a primary meaning is actually a fairly
RS> BN>recent construct.
RS> Oh. Okay. My dictionary isn't outdated, then. The definitions contained
RS> therein are recent additions. :)
And rolling out the older original ones.  Gee, & *we* talk about
RETCON. 
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