What's the deal with 'new antiques'?
I drove past an antique shop in Northeast Georgia this weekend – they had a nig red and white sign “New Antiques Received Weekly”.
Isn’t that an oxymoron? Can antiques be new?
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To me it means new to the store. I don’t really see another way to parse it.
I agree. They update their inventory weekly!!!
Time moves inexorably forward, so everything that exists, unless it is destroyed, will inevitably become an “antique”, someday.
Try definition 4 versus definition 1 in the oxford dictionary.
1 – not previously existing
4— at the present time or moment.
Is there “5 – not previously at this store”?
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