Twice in the past week I have had discussions about the phrase “new and improved”, mostly starting by someone saying that an item cannot be both. Let us look at this.
The way I see this phrase is that an object can hold the characteristics of new as well as the characteristics of improved.
If I have [...]
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New and Improved
Posted in General, tagged improved, language, new, semantics, words on June 27, 2009 | Leave a Comment »