[FRIAM] Pondering weird english words

[Steven A Smith]

I like the paral-lax provided by the roughly synonymous neologisms:

     be-lax

and

     chill-lax

On 12/30/18 11:01 AM, Frank Wimberly wrote:
> re·lax
> Origin
>
> late Middle English: from Latin /relaxare/, from /re-/(expressing 
> intensive force) + /laxus/ ‘lax, loose.’
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> On Sun, Dec 30, 2018, 10:58 AM Gillian Densmore 
> <gil.densmore at gmail.com <mailto:gil.densmore at gmail.com> wrote:
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>     While reading a book last night  talking about some characters
>     relaxing. I've always been curious. If Re: is to do again. then
>     what was laxing supposed to be?
>     Many people on this and the wed-tech list are REtired. So do you
>     get Tired again then quit being a worker ?
>     I seriously get these kind of words.
>     Any guesses where they came from?
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