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echo: startrek
to: BILL NICHOLS
from: RITA SMITH
date: 1998-04-11 16:44:00
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 My dictionary must be outdated.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 Not outdated, in fact more likely the reverse, only including a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. 
Well, I'm a single common current usage kinda gal. :)
 > 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 My dictionary isn't outdated, then.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 
ontained
 > RS> therein are recent additions. :)
 > And rolling out the older original ones.  Gee, & *we* talk about
 > RETCON. 
Hey, if *they* can do it, so can we. 
TTYL
Rita
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