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Date:         Wed, 12 Aug 1992 16:10:42 EDT
From:         Bill Merrill <ST401601@BROWNVM.BROWN.EDU>
Subject:      Re: Acronyms/Gender
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On the subject of grammatical gender, one thing I didn't mention
was personal pronouns. Only third person pronouns carry gender,
while first and second person do not. This is in the indo-european
family; I think Japanese has "I" masculine and feminine.
Do any other languages?   Perhaps PIE originally had only two
3rd pers pronouns which referred to animate and inanimate
"it" objects. "He" and "she" are perhaps later developments,
pronoun-wise. Also, they connote sex rather than grammatical gender,
and that is a touchy subject. Bill








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Date:         Tue, 18 Aug 1992 21:01:00 EST
From:         Entropy Warrior <AUSBROOK%IUBACS.BITNET@uga.cc.uga.edu>
Subject:      La-di-da

Really slow night out there in Words-L Land.  Really slow

-Mka
who complains but is painting a door and contemplating the
conjunction of entropy and Uranus--and the effect on stochastic
processes were it to happen.
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Date:         Thu, 20 Aug 1992 19:40:11 EST
From:         Entropy Warrior <AUSBROOK@UCS.INDIANA.EDU>
Subject:      Re: List wars

>> Which is to say it wann't so good either.   Which isn't true.
>>
>> -Mka
>>
>Picky picky..
>Justt trying to be supportive -- there seems to be no pleasing
>some people - ...Sheesh...A

Agnes, I understood it was supportive--it's just that there are
some very itchy trigger fingers on flamethrowers out there.  ANd
this interlist stuff seems to be a sensitive subject for
historical reasons that I have still to look into.

Thanks for the intended support, though.

-Mka
aaa
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Date:         Wed, 12 Aug 1992 07:41:00 -0500
From:         Nancy Harwood <harwood@TENET.EDU>
Subject:      Re: On
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On Wed, 12 Aug 1992, Karen Kay wrote:
> > This is interesting.  I don't know the answer, but while we're in the
> > "in/on" vein, I'm wondering about the use of "standing in line" and
> > "standing on line."  I would say "in line," but I hear more and more
> > people saying "on line."
>
> This used to be the one sure way to tell a NYC-er...this seems to be
> quite persistent.  I've never heard it from the mouth of anyone else.
>
The first time I heard it in Texas, around 1973, was from someone who had
recently moved to Houston from Brooklyn.
ndh
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Date:         Fri, 14 Aug 1992 21:20:18 EDT
From:         Karen Kay <LL23%NEMOMUS.BITNET@uga.cc.uga.edu>
Subject:      alileste@idbsu.idbsu.edu
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> >  If some readers claim to have encountered this phenomenon in real life I
> >reply they are mistaken. What they thought to be real life was a
> >piece of idiotic coy revolting fiction.
>
>    _NOW_ my first marriage makes sense.....it was idiotic coy revolting
> fiction.....I wish.....

This gave me *such* a good laugh!  Thanks!

Karen
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Date:         Thu, 13 Aug 1992 17:37:59 MST
From:         Dan Lester <ALILESTE@IDBSU.IDBSU.EDU>
Subject:      Re: Taking Names and Kicking Butts
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              Gail Lester <gaill@hpdmd48.boi.hp.com>
              13 Aug 1992 07:57:21 CDT from <maynor@RA.MSSTATE.EDU>

On Thu, 13 Aug 1992 07:57:21 CDT Natalie Maynor said:
>You have good taste in bourbon.  That was my favorite brand back when I
>drank bourbon.

   You can always tell those Southern Ladies....just finest bourbon, or
a touch of Southern Comfort for a few of them....
   I was always considered backwards....for always liking scotch and always
hating bourbon....everyone else said that "everyone likes bourbon and you
have to LEARN to like scotch"    Oh, welll.....not only thing I was ever
backwards on.  And indeed, that was "back when I drank [whatever, other than
diet coke]"

dan
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Date:         Thu, 13 Aug 1992 13:14:16 +0200
From:         torkel@SICS.SE
Subject:      Re: chicken shit
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              13 Aug 92 06:08:07 -0500. <9208131110.AA02964@sics.se>

  >contrary to popular U.S. myth, the French are very polite and supportive
  >of feeble attempts to use their beautiful language.

  That's because you are a goddess, and an American goddess at that.
European tourists in Paris are, so I am told, uniformly sneered at.
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Date:         Sat, 15 Aug 1992 06:56:35 CDT
From:         "Natalie Maynor" <maynor@RA.MSSTATE.EDU>
Subject: RE: Gender
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> Who was it that was objecting to redundant back-formations?  Susan?
> What's wrong with 'citation' here?  Cite has always been a verb to me.
> However, it's "an invite" for "an invitation" that *really* gets my goat -
> *everyone* over here uses it nowadays except me :-(

I wouldn't call those back-formations.  I would call them clippings.  One
that used to bother me is "quote" for "quotation," although I've gotten
used to it.  A back-formation to me is something like creating the word
"edit" from "editor."
   --Natalie (maynor@ra.msstate.edu)
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From: karsten@netcom.com (karsten)
Subject: Re: Why I Couldn't Find the RAM! 
Date: Wed, 19 Aug 92 19:24:58 GMT
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gtoal@pizzabox.demon.co.uk (Graham Toal) writes:
> No, but I'm pretty sure he's assuming all computer geeks who can
> count to twenty-one with their pants down are...

...in better control of their vasodilation than I am of mine?

--karsten
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Date:         Thu, 13 Aug 1992 12:16:00 EDT
From:         Karen Kay <LL23%NEMOMUS.BITNET@uga.cc.uga.edu>
Subject:      Yankee revisited (briefly)
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> "slow down."  Must be another Yankee thang, as is putting butter on
> meat sandwiches (yuk).

Adam!!!  You're conflating the two meanings of Yankee!!!  Please!!

Karen
A Purist
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Date:         Wed, 19 Aug 1992 13:06:12 +0200
From:         torkel@SICS.SE
Subject:      Re: gonadological oppression
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              19 Aug 92 10:48:06 +0000. <9208191101.AA14241@sics.se>

  Balya claims:

  >And 'ism'is something to believe in, as 'monarchism,' 'deism,' 'atheism,'
  >and so on.  If 'feminism' the ism is simply equated with being female, then

  Sorry, but you have misunderstood these concepts. Only a monarch can
truly be a monarchist, and only a God who does not actively interfere
with the universe can be a deist. Being an atheist is easier: it just
requires not being a god.
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Date:         Fri, 14 Aug 1992 15:15:24 MST
From:         Dan Lester <ALILESTE@IDBSU.IDBSU.EDU>
Subject:      Re: the ugly american syndrome.
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              14 Aug 1992 11:51:44 EDT from <GE777009@BROWNVM.BROWN.EDU>

On Fri, 14 Aug 1992 11:51:44 EDT jcs said:
>Jenna who turned in the paper work this afternoon to GO BACK TO SCHOOL.

Congratulations and condolences, Ms. Cole Steele.

dan
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Date:         Sun, 16 Aug 1992 02:32:54 -0500
From:         Melicent Tlucek Bryarly <melicent@TENET.EDU>
Subject: Re: Regional usages
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We lived in south Louisiana for eight years and found many interesting
phrases. One in particular was that a woman was "pregnant for" a child
instead of "pregnant with" a child.
Melicent, who still misses the good Cajun cooking
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Date:         Thu, 13 Aug 1992 14:52:28 +0200
From:         torkel@SICS.SE
Subject:      Re: Taking Names and Kicking Butts
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              13 Aug 92 07:39:24 -0500. <9208131241.AA05943@sics.se>

  >WELCOME BACK, DON!!  Now what's everybody drinking?  This might bring some
  >interesting revelations here at 7:35 a.m. (CDT).  You're safe, Judith and
  >Torkel; 2:35 p.m. is a more respectable time for drinking anything you want
  >to drink.

  Well, I would have some Maker's Mark sour mash bourbon, only I've
already drunk it all (you may guess who I got it from). Today as I
walked through the supermarket looking for a lunch sandwich I saw
an interesting item: "beer in a bag", claimed to be a huge success
in England. Essentially, you brew your own beer in a bag, all the
ingredients (except water) being provided. I'm thinking of trying it
out. It seems simple enough (pour water in the bag and let it lie for
four weeks), unlike the alchemical procedures I've seen described
by home brewers.
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Date:         Tue, 18 Aug 1992 13:26:00 EST
From:         Entropy Warrior <AUSBROOK%IUBACS.BITNET@uga.cc.uga.edu>
Subject:      O.2% solution

>Examine the emphasis.  Another one who was brought up on typewriters...
>I guess that dates mka too...
>
>G

To quote the poet--not in a pig's eye.  There's entirely too much
meaning going on in this list.

-Mka
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Date:         Sat, 15 Aug 1992 13:24:19 GMT
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From:         "Don Moore (813) 974-4078 S/C 574-4078"
 <DBFABAK%CFRVM.BITNET@uga.cc.uga.edu>
Subject:      Re: Internet outage

HI Doris,

Sort of my reaction also!  The part came in about a 6 inch cube box, and
was rushed airmailed from Atlanta ...we were out of business.  Didn't
really understand the device, but told it was fairly complex and contained
many gold parts.  Sounded halfway reasonable, as gold is an excellent
conductor of electricity...just glad I wasn't paying the bill!

                            Peace,
                                  Don
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Date:         Wed, 19 Aug 1992 21:45:51 MST
From:         Dan Lester <ALILESTE@IDBSU.IDBSU.EDU>
Subject:      Re: Grade Appeals (again)
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              19 Aug 1992 08:29:14 CDT from
              <DHROBERT%SAMFORD.BITNET@uga.cc.uga.edu>

On Wed, 19 Aug 1992 08:29:14 CDT David H. Roberts said:
>Several of us had some Bitnet discussions regarding grade appeals policies
>last February.  My committee will begin work in earnest this September,
>and I need additional information.  I shall recap that discussion:
>
>   David H. Roberts
>   Director of University Writing Programs

I just LOVE it when these folks post something like this to "likely lists"
without knowing what it is really all about....even better than those
that post them to ALL lists....now I wonder ifany of us will send him
such policies....either real ones or words-l type of ones....

dan
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Date:         Wed, 19 Aug 1992 10:14:14 GMT
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From:         "Don Moore (813) 974-4078 S/C 574-4078"
 <DBFABAK%CFRVM.BITNET@uga.cc.uga.edu>
Subject:      Geek vs Nerd

Is a geek the same as a nerd?

Don, who has at times been one or the other, and sometimes both.  No big deal.

                            Peace,
                                  Don
From: aharwell@PANAM1.PANAM.EDU (Bandwidth Pig)
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Subject: Re: Gender
Date: 18 Aug 92 13:21:26 GMT
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>Jim (a collection of icons that symbolizes who I am) Thomas

So all this means you're a Macintosh?

-abh
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Date:         Mon, 17 Aug 1992 05:13:14 MED
From:         Graham Toal <gtoal@STACK.URC.TUE.NL>
Subject: Re: Gender
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	wig on camera....  and because he thinks Murray is doing one of his
	best roles....)

Well *you* certainly haven't seen 'Where the buffalo roam'...

See it - it's a must.  Oh, and read the book first if you get
the chance - "The Great Shark Hunt" (Hunter S Thompson)

G
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Date:         Wed, 12 Aug 1992 11:41:44 -0500
Reply-To:     Doris Smith <dorisann@tenet.edu>
From:         Doris Smith <dorisann@TENET.EDU>
Subject:      Diffily Update
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I had a note from Anne Diffily and her water broke this morning around 4!
She was waiting for contractions to come closer together before heading to
the hospital (*and* wanted to hug her children before leaving), but felt
as if today will be the day. If I hear more I'll let you know and anyone
else who hears, let us know.
Doris
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Date:         Sat, 22 Aug 1992 16:56:46 EDT
From:         Karen Kay <LL23%NEMOMUS.BITNET@uga.cc.uga.edu>
Subject:      Modems excite me...
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Posted on 22 Aug 1992 at 17:43:54 by Entropy Warrior
> If I don't have a pause, PCPLUS dials before the dialtone comes
> up.

Bizarre.  That's never been a problem, but I'll try anything.
I'm at work now, so it'll have to wait.

Karen
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Date:         Wed, 12 Aug 1992 07:04:03 EDT
From:         Karen Kay <LL23%NEMOMUS.BITNET@uga.cc.uga.edu>
Subject:      A Baby!!!
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No, I'm not having one, but Anne Diffily's water has broken...

Why am *I* so excited? I don't know, but I have been from the
beginning.  Maybe because this is a miracle baby, long-awaited and
unexpected.  Anyway, my fingers are crossed for an easy labor for
Adbam!!!!

Karen
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Date:         Sat, 15 Aug 1992 17:20:05 MST
From:         Dan Lester <ALILESTE@IDBSU.IDBSU.EDU>
Subject: Re: What do you call...
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              15 Aug 1992 17:46:58 CDT from <maynor@RA.MSSTATE.EDU>

On Sat, 15 Aug 1992 17:46:58 CDT Natalie Maynor said:
>Here's a similar question with a less clear answer.  What do you call
>yourself when you're between ranks?  Our contracts run from the middle

   following the same logic as the kids, you're now a full professor.

>of August until the middle of May.  My contract that ended last May was
>for one rank, and my contract that starts this year on August 16 (which
>strikes me as a peculiar date since it's a Sunday) is for a different
>rank.  What am I right now?

   Unemployed.
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Date:         Fri, 21 Aug 1992 19:01:21 EST
From:         Entropy Warrior <AUSBROOK@UCS.INDIANA.EDU>
Subject:      Re: TshirtII, Cubbies, zero

Czarina!

Where have you been hiding all day?  You have been missed.

-Mka
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Date:         Wed, 12 Aug 1992 07:37:22 CDT
From:         "Natalie Maynor" <maynor@RA.MSSTATE.EDU>
Subject:      Re: Soapbox/Bullshit
Comments: To: words-l@uga.cc.uga.edu

> Sure, it was most enjoyable.  Was the time you spent editing a hackers
> magazine done as a way of infiltrating hackers in order to study them
> for your computer crime work, by the way, or did that come after?

Hackers don't necessarily commit crimes.  Crackers do.
   --Natalie (maynor@ra.msstate.edu)
     language purist, prescriptive lexicographer -- but only once in
     a while ;-)
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From: karsten@netcom.com (karsten)
Subject: Re: alumni associations
Date: Thu, 20 Aug 92 09:00:48 GMT
Organization: Karsten's Bit Bucket
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I wrote:
> It took another year for the Alumni Association to find me.
 
Jill wrote:
> I can't believe it took the Alumni Association that long to find
> you...I think the one at my undergraduate school was asking us for
> money *before* we graduated.

I decided to make myself hard to find.

I didn't register a forwarding address with the post office.  I
switched my "official" campus address to that of a friend (who I never
told my new address or phone number).  I asked my parents not to give
out my new address or phone number to anybody.

Then I moved 2000 miles away.

I haven't received any calls from my Alumni Association, so wherever
they got my address they didn't manage to get my true phone number.
I've been giving out the number for the recorded message at the local
porn theater as my number (for mail order, checks, etc.), so I like
to think they have been trying to reach me there.

--karsten

"Debbie Does DC is showing continuously from 9AM to 11PM through Monday..."
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Date:         Wed, 12 Aug 1992 23:03:57 EDT
From:         Tony Harminc <TONY@VM1.MCGILL.CA>
Subject:      Re: Free Press strikes again...
              12 Aug 1992 15:01:20 EDT from <gtoal@CURSCI.CO.UK>

On Wed, 12 Aug 1992 15:01:20 EDT Graham Toal said:

>How many of you folks actually buy foreign papers, to find out what's
>going on in your own country?

Well I buy foreign papers (principally The Economist), but rarely to
learn about Canadian events.  Certainly there's no coverage of Canada
to speak of in US or UK papers, except the occasional wire service
piece about a Mountie biting a dog or some such.

I do read The Economist to get general world news, and much better
coverage of US issues than any US mainstream paper has.

Tony H.
(Who from time to time also buys Private Eye, but doesn't get most
 of the British in-jokes any more)
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Date:         Tue, 18 Aug 1992 21:53:21 EST
From:         Entropy Warrior <AUSBROOK@UCS.INDIANA.EDU>
Subject:      RE: the state of slowness

> We have not so much a blotto bandwidth pig as a 2 X 4 bandwidth pig.
>Doris

Excuse my ignorance--Le Pig at 2 X 4?

-Mka
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Date:         Thu, 20 Aug 1992 16:10:07 EDT
From:         Rashmi Murthy <rashmi@CBIS.ECE.DREXEL.EDU>
Subject:      Re: Geekefaction
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> Many hackers seem to drink either Jolt Cola or Mountain Dew.  Both have
> more caffeine than Coke or Pepsi.
> --karsten

YES, Karsten.  I've never heard of Jolt, but folks here drink
Mountain Dew by the crate.  Yuk, never touch the stuff myself.

rashmi
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Date:         Fri, 14 Aug 1992 09:29:11 EST
From:         Entropy Warrior <AUSBROOK@UCS.INDIANA.EDU>
Subject:      RE: Gender

 >  If somebody used "hit" (neuter) instead of "heo" (feminine) to stand for
 >  "wund" (wound -- feminine) in OE, would you consider it an error in gender?
 >     --Natalie (maynor@ra.msstate.edu)

That would be a mistake in grammatical gender--you can recognize
it as a mistake by knowing about the *form* of wund without
knowing anything about what wund "means"--you can recognize that
the rules of the game are being broken without knowing anything
about what the game is "about".  Cf. rules of addition and you're
checkbook.  A "grammatical" mistake is where the addition is
wrong given the numbers in the book.  A "lexical" mistake is where
cheque #234 was for $2.38 and not $4.37.  The balance still comes
out wrong, but in the latter case, you can't say why just from
knowing how to add and subtract and from looking at the entries.

Seems reasonable for nine-thirty in the morning without having
had any coffee.  Hm?

-Mka

Teary Heat Death:  Entropia lachrymosa
From: AUSBROOK%IUBACS.BITNET@uga.cc.uga.edu (Entropy Warrior)
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Subject: The Evidence
Date: 21 Aug 92 01:00:00 GMT
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Here is the offending post on LITERARY, courtesy of Doris, who forwarded it
to me , not wanting to be presumptuous and put it out there
herself.  An *amazing* gesture.  (He bows.)


>>It's quiet out there, Sarge.
>>Yeah.  Too quiet.
>>        Is there something screwed up with my reception or with the network,
>>or is anyone
>
>At last count folks were discussing the wonders of Hardy and
>Fitzgerald with a thread of Ursula *K.* Le Guin running in and
>out.  If action is what you want, Ian, try subscribing to WORDS-
>L@UGA.  If you go away for a weekend you're likely to find 300
>posts in your box Monday morning.  Their an interesting bunch of
>folks--A Bandwidth Pid, a Czarina . . . even an Entropy Warrior.
>Just be a little careful at the beginning--other than annual goat
>roasts, they also are always ready for an ad hoc newby roast.
>Once you brave the fire, they *can* be friendly--Le Pig included,
>when she's not in flamethrower mode--all the way from East
>Podunk, Texas.  At the moment the hunt is on for a missing
>Wordsler--he was travelling and seems to have dropped off the
>map.  (The world is flat after all.)

-Mka
Read my lists
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Date:         Thu, 20 Aug 1992 16:21:02 EDT
From:         Karen Kay <LL23%NEMOMUS.BITNET@uga.cc.uga.edu>
Subject:      Re: comments on this phrase
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Posted on 20 Aug 1992 at 15:42:39 by karsten
> AUSBROOK@UCS.INDIANA.EDU (Entropy Warrior) writes:
> > It's the only example that I know of tmesis in English.
                                                                        .
What the hell is tmesis?  I thought this type of thing was usually
covered in intro lx classes under infixing.(I haven't taught it
for 6 years though.)

> I hear plenty of other examples that involve so-called vulgar language
> --karsten
> Can any fucking body else think of some?  (Apologies to the sensitive...)

In-fucking-credible.
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Date:         Mon, 17 Aug 1992 21:00:00 EST
From:         Entropy Warrior <AUSBROOK%IUBACS.BITNET@uga.cc.uga.edu>
Subject:      Doublings

I had never heard of Quintana Roo (?!?) until last week on the
list.  Then Sunday morning Charles Kuralt mentions Quintana Roo.

Weirdness comes in twos.

-Mka
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