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Philip Weinberg's EPISTOLA [ XVIII, 2] regarding the Russian word for railroad station in Bryson's English Know-How, No Problem [ XVIII, 4] deserves a comment: While loan words often undergo vast changes in meaning when introduced into a new language, the change from the whole to one of at least two of its parts (assuming there would have been a First Class waiting room for a Volksaal [ sic ] to make sense) in this case seemed too far-fetched.
The new Denzel Washington crime thriller is said to suffer from an overwrought screenplay and a far-fetched conceit: A detective battles a demon that jumps from one person to another when they touch.
Most critics chide the Richard Donner ( Lethal Weapon ) film as irredeemably far-fetched: A paranoid New York cabbie (Mel Gibson) and a lawyer (Julia Roberts) are chased by government assassins when one of the cabbie's fantastic theories turns out to be true.
Others take D'Souza to task for his far-fetched theory that Reagan's "gaffes" were calculated.
Ernout and Meillet, in their delightful Dictionnaire étymologique de la langue latine , urbanely review several rather far-fetched possibilities including LMN—well, it is a series—and elephas (elephant), but conclude with a shrug of their shoulders and a suggestion that the word might have come from Etruscan.