[projectaon] Re: Editor's Companion Submission
- From: Timothy Pederick <pederick@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: projectaon@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sat, 30 Jan 2010 04:28:18 +0800
2010/1/30 David Davis <feline1@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Definition no.2,
>
"to live or continue in a given condition or state"? Vakovar is a concrete
place, while this definition would seem to apply to abstract "condition[s]
or state[s]". Besides which, Lone Wolf definitely isn't considering "living"
there, and Id' say that to "continue" in a place is synonymous with
"remaining", and without some context of time, it implies "remaining
indefinitely" -- essentially, the usual definition of dwell.
> plus the etymology
>
I do agree that this one etymological extract supports "linger" being an
archaic sense of "dwell":
> Sense shifted in M.E. through "hinder, delay," to "linger" (c.1200, as
> still in phrase to dwell upon), to "make a home" (c.1250). Dwelling
> "place of residence" is attested from 1340.
But I really think it's too thin a justification for using "dwell" in the
ordinary prose of the book, as opposed to (for instance) some character's
clearly archaic speech.
--
Tim Pederick
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