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A Scheme for abolishing all Words is one of the wittiest and smartest comments on semantics. (Illustration: extreme close-up from the movie "The Big Swallow" (1901), produced and directed by James Williamson (1855-1933)
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A Scheme for abolishing all Words is one of the wittiest and smartest comments on semantics. (Illustration: extreme close-up from the movie "The Big Swallow" (1901), produced and directed by James Williamson (1855-1933)
  1. A series of comments or annotations; especially, a book of explanations or expositions on the whole or a part of some other work.
    This letter . . . was published by him with a severe commentary. -Henry Hallam.
  2. A brief account of transactions or events written hastily, as if for a memorandum; -- usually in the plural; as, Caesar's Commentaries on the Gallic War.

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From Latin commentarius, Template:Term, confer Template:Etyl commentaire. See comment.

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