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Date:         Fri, 14 Aug 1992 08:20:00 LCL
From:         Carol_Carmick@BEAV.INTERSOLV.COM
Subject: Re: Prostrate problems.
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Do you find that you encounter
problems while prostrate?

     I'm far more prone to encounter problems while supine.

     Carol
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Date:         Tue, 18 Aug 1992 18:42:39 EDT
Reply-To:     Graham Toal <gtoal@ed.ac.uk>
From:         Graham Toal <gtoal@CURSCI.CO.UK>
Subject:      Re: To Architect
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On Tue, 18 Aug 1992 01:36:01 GMT, "karsten" <karsten@NETCOM.COM> wrote:
> gtoal@CURSCI.CO.UK (Graham Toal) writes:
> > Well, in the case of Acorn, Steve & Roger did all three.  But then the
> > only good CPUs are the ones designed by software guys...
>
> Architectures by software people are as good as manuals by software
> people.  Sometimes you get lucky and they are fine but usually they are
> not worth using.

OK, perhaps I should rephrase that.  Architectures driven mainly
by hardware designers aren't worth the silicon they're etched on.

G
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Date:         Fri, 14 Aug 1992 00:38:51 EDT
From:         Tony Harminc <TONY@VM1.MCGILL.CA>
Subject:      Re: i am here
              12 Aug 1992 13:37:17 EDT from <PRIMATE@BROWNVM.BROWN.EDU>

On Wed, 12 Aug 1992 13:37:17 EDT Judith E. Schrier said:

>Typing on non-qwerty keyboard with lots of odd quirks.

That's probably an azerty keyboard with lots of odd auirks.

Tony H.
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Date:         Thu, 20 Aug 1992 17:59:47 EST
From:         Entropy Warrior <AUSBROOK@UCS.INDIANA.EDU>
Subject:      Re: comments on this phrase

>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.)

It's where words get chopped up and spread around.  It's not
infixing.  And sticking expletives between syllables is close,
but not exactly tmesis, I think.  I first came across it in
Homer and Vergil, some moons ago.

-Mka
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Date:         Sat, 22 Aug 1992 05:33:15 EDT
From:         "Judith E. Schrier" <PRIMATE@BROWNVM.BROWN.EDU>
Subject:      Hey, there
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Greetings to all, from Paris again. I had an interesting
meeting in Strasbourg and am back in the little apartment
on Rue du Cardinal LeMoine, avec minitel.

love,
judith
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Date:         Thu, 13 Aug 1992 07:39:24 CDT
From:         "Natalie Maynor" <maynor@RA.MSSTATE.EDU>
Subject: Re: Taking Names and Kicking Butts
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> Bartender, a round of whatever to each person in the room.  Drinks on me.

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.  Graham's probably ok also, considering the very weird concepts
of appropriate drinking times in England.  Akio, of course, is quite safe.
It's what -- 10:35 p.m. there?
   --Natalie (maynor@ra.msstate.edu)
From: haycock@marley.think.com (Anne Haycock)
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Date: 12 Aug 92 11:15:15
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In-reply-to: Adam Hartfield's message of Wed, 12 Aug 1992 09:33:00 EST


   Come Saturday I'll be going off-net.  I can't afford Drew any longer,
   --Adam (ahartfie@{drew, drunivac}{.bitnet, .drew.edu})

Oh poop, Adam, say it ain't so!  I trust you'll figure out a way to stay in
touch...at least, I hope so!

Here's hoping you win a lottery or sumthin'--real soon.

//anne//
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Date:         Sat, 15 Aug 1992 22:26:00 EDT
From:         Gilbert Smith <N567126@NCSUADM.ACS.NCSU.EDU>
Subject: Re: Giggles' News
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> > I don't think Giggles was in Cancun at all.  My spies didn't see him
> > there...
>
> I agree. I think his wife made him clean up all of the mess he made making
> Neiman-Marcus cookies.
> Doris

Actually, I think he is afraid to tell his wife that he is going to
make NM cookies for the words-lers because she gets a what-kind-of-
bunch-is-this look on her face whenever he mentions anything remotely
related to <clams>.....
--ggs (making cookies in the dark....)
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Date:         Tue, 18 Aug 1992 21:57:00 EST
From:         Entropy Warrior <AUSBROOK%IUBACS.BITNET@uga.cc.uga.edu>
Subject:      Vanity of vanities

>Maybe Entropy wants you to stop taking Its name in vain :-)
>
>--bayla

I *never* take *her* name in vain.  I worship Entropy--and pigs.

-Mka
Back to the door for a while
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Date:         Tue, 18 Aug 1992 13:18:26 EST
From:         Entropy Warrior <AUSBROOK@UCS.INDIANA.EDU>
Subject:      RE: A query

>2). Is Ausbrook playing footsie with me or what?
>
>Any assistace with these would be most appreciated.

This is in *very* bad taste, abh--I lost both feet to frostbite
on K2 six years ago.

-Mka
Footless and fancy-free
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From: ap290@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Ruth M. Hanschka)
Subject: Re: Secrets
Reply-To: ap290@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Ruth M. Hanschka)
Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH (USA)
Date: Thu, 20 Aug 92 19:40:23 GMT


In a previous article, AUSBROOK%IUBACS.BITNET@uga.cc.uga.edu (Entropy Warrior) says:

>>BTW - how old do you figure we are?
>
>That would be telling.
>
>-Mka
Well, tell!  I will if you will, and I'll even go first.:-) 
	26 - and that's three or so years younger than my typewriter....

-- 
It's Ruth the NetHead, back from the [virtual] dead
	- ap290@cleveland.freenet.edu
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Date:         Wed, 12 Aug 1992 08:39:00 PST
From:         Lobstrosities Unite <CHRISS%CWU.BITNET@uga.cc.uga.edu>
Subject: Re: Wait up!

>I would say "Hey John... John, wait."  I've never said "wait up," altho
>I've heard it (from Yankees).
>   --Natalie (maynor@ra.msstate.edu)

You know, I also say "hold up" for "stop" or, more precisely, "wait". If I was
walking down the street with Heidi and I got a rock in my shoe I would say
"Hey, hold up for a second. I've got a rock in my shoe."  The thing of it is
is, I very likely may have yelled "Hold up" to John when I saw him ahead of me.

"Hold on" may substitute in there someplace, too.

WTHKW.

Chris
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Date:         Wed, 19 Aug 1992 08:34:00 HST
From:         "Michael E. Macmillan" <MACMILLM%EWC.BITNET@uga.cc.uga.edu>
Subject:      Re: So much traffic..

>Not only that, but they have beaten you to a conversation on Woody
>Allen's relationship with his sorta step-daughter.
>
>Rita

Ho hum.  Life imitating art.
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Date:         Sat, 15 Aug 1992 12:37:32 MST
From:         Dan Lester <ALILESTE@IDBSU.IDBSU.EDU>
Subject:      Re: Good evening to you all
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On Sat, 15 Aug 1992 06:04:53 -0500 Pat Gathright said:
>> >(1) At 12:00 noon one ceases saying "Good morning" and begins saying "Good
>>      At precisely 5:37p.m. local standard/daylight time.
>
>Dan, Why 5:37 p.m.? I always wait until it is dark outside to say "good
>evening."  Mothers learns that when they tells their kids it is time to
>come inside for the evening and they say "but Mom, it's not dark yet!"

Because I was being silly and poking fun at the artifial precision of the
12:00:00 requirement.  I DO know people who actually look at their watch
to see which it is.  (or maybe they're just waiting to see if they can go
to lunch yet, who knows).

To me the REAL difference would be some undefinable combination of
before/after dark and before/after supper.

dan
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Date:         Tue, 18 Aug 1992 21:30:36 CDT
From:         "Natalie Maynor" <maynor@RA.MSSTATE.EDU>
Subject:      Re: Weird
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> Working at my computer caused me to need *trifocals* and I get a dumb
> crick in my neck trying to find the correct spot out of which to look.
> Yes, old age is definitely a drag.

Oh but I have trifocals also.  I don't use them at the computer because
I don't like getting a crick in my neck.  My computer glasses are a
single strength -- one step down from the middle part of the trifocals
(one step toward the bottom part of the trifocals).  Being single strength
(and in old frames), the computer glasses are pretty cheap.  But I fear
that I'm going to need new trifocals also (of which I also have two
pairs -- one red and one blue -- I mean the frames, not the glasses).
I fear that my idea of a new computer is about to be gobbled up by
optical costs.

   --Natalie (maynor@ra.msstate.edu)
     now online with the naked eye, having discovered that it beats the
     computer glasses -- and yes, singular is appropriate there, since
     it's only my right eye that can make out the words on the screen...

P.S. Re monitor not turned on:  I once reported that my voice-data modem
was broken, only to discover that it wasn't plugged in.
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From: ap290@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Ruth M. Hanschka)
Subject: Re: Today's Trivia
Reply-To: ap290@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Ruth M. Hanschka)
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Date: Sun, 16 Aug 92 03:58:20 GMT


In a previous article, N567126@NCSUADM.ACS.NCSU.EDU (Gilbert Smith) says:

>Seriously now, folks, this comment about second childhood, *just*
>*because* I bought a sportscar is prejudice of the grossest sort
>and I can just feel my stomach beginning to churn in a way that
>Moctezuma never knew....  Why is it...  I say, *why* is it that
		<<plop>>  <bottle of e-pepto drops on Giggles>
	<<*crash*>>  <Giggles fumbles e-pepto>
>a male buying a sports car signifies childishness?  Does anyone
>ever say that a female is acting childish if she buys a sportscar?
	Nope - we say she's begging for speeding tickets!
>And anyway, at 24 I bought a Sunbeam Alpine, at 36 an MGB no-top
>roadster, at 49 a Porsche 914, and now at 54 a Mazda Miata.  Have
>I *never* stopped being a <chile> (that's English Southern, not
	Whassa matter wit youse?  You gotta ting for license points?
	[East Coast Urban]

>--ggs (whose wife would just *love* to hear him accused of
>       childishness.... that's one she hasn't thought of...)
Bet she has now! <giggle>

-- 
It's Ruth the NetHead, back from the [virtual] dead
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Date:         Sun, 16 Aug 1992 16:42:16 EDT
From:         Karen Kay <LL23%NEMOMUS.BITNET@uga.cc.uga.edu>
Subject:      Yo' mama
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> <de puta madre> as in....   Ay, esta es una playa de puta madre!
> Non-peninuslar hispanics often do not understand that this means
> "fantaaastic!")

I *know* I heard this in a movie!  Those of us who work w/ Truly
Foreign Languages sneer at the thought of doing something as banal
as actually *learning* one of those lgs. that are Cognate With
English.  So I've been wondering about this one for a while. Whew!

Karen
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Date:         Wed, 12 Aug 1992 12:09:43 EDT
From:         Rashmi Murthy <rashmi@CBIS.ECE.DREXEL.EDU>
Subject:      Re: Music Junkie
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>Come Saturday I'll be going off-net.  I can't afford Drew any longer,
>so I'm taking a semester/possibly a year off to earn some money so I
>can come back and get my degree.  I'm going to buy a modem today so
>that I can call in from home (yeesh..that's 3 states away), so if
>anyone wants to send me mail at ahartfie@drunivac.drew.edu or
>ahartfie@drunivac.bitnet, you're more than welcome to do so.  I'm
>going to be setting nomail on Saturday, and believe me, I'm going to
>miss this virtual family very much.  Y'all have been a part of my
>life for the past year and a half, and it's going to be very
>difficult to adjust to life without Words-L.

>--Adam (ahartfie@{drew, drunivac}{.bitnet, .drew.edu})

No, Adam.  You can't set nomail, you're the List Honey!
Can you get telnet access from some school in Springfield?

abh was on the mark in her post, you're a real pal.

rashmi
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Date:         Tue, 18 Aug 1992 20:58:27 -0500
From:         Doris Smith <dorisann@TENET.EDU>
Subject:      Re: Weird
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On Tue, 18 Aug 1992, Natalie Maynor Maynor

> The world is fascinating to those of us who don't
> understand how anything works. >

Natalie, your descriptions of the things that puzzle you sound quite
intelligent and knowledgeable, believe me. Contrast your message about
ProCom Plus with *my* perplexing problem of the day.  During my
<conference> period I went to the Multi-Purpose Computer Lab
(formerly known for its one year in existence as the Writing Lab but
because the math teachers felt left out, the poor dears, was re-named),
which is not yet officially open (interesting story, that), therefore the
computers have not yet been turned on.  The tennis/volleyball coach (who
was taught to use a computer by *moi* last year) was using one of the
computers hooked up to a laser printer, and I took a seat next to her
because I wanted to use the laser printer also.  My screen was blank,
which has never happened to me in there because the computers are always
on and ready to go. I turned the computer on and while I waited for it to
boot proof read what she was working on, which took a while because it was
funny and we laughed a lot.  Thinking it was time I got to work, I turned
to my computer to find that the screen was still blank.  After checking
all of the plugs and cords and disks and thingamajigs, the coach said,
"Maybe you need to turn the monitor on."  I taught her well.  That solved
the problem.

>     who is most unhappy that she can no longer read the screen very
>      well with her computer glasses, of which she has TWO pairs, one
>      for here and one for office... old age is such a drag...

Working at my computer caused me to need *trifocals* and I get a dumb
crick in my neck trying to find the correct spot out of which to look.
Yes, old age is definitely a drag.
Doris
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Date:         Wed, 12 Aug 1992 09:51:50 CDT
From:         "Natalie Maynor" <maynor@RA.MSSTATE.EDU>
Subject:      Re: Music Junkie
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> 	I suggest that Natalie should devote a portion of her PCH winnings to
> 	keeping you on the list somehow.

But of course!  As the cruise historian when we go to Villefranche, Adam
will have to have steady access.  Maybe we'll all move to the cruise ship
permanently, with our elaborate telecommunications system.
   --Natalie (maynor@ra.msstate.edu)
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Date:         Fri, 21 Aug 1992 07:44:36 EDT
From:         jcs <GE777009@BROWNVM.BROWN.EDU>
Subject: Re: Tim Johnson
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>Posted on 20 Aug 1992 at 16:13:55 by Evelyn Duncan
>
>Re:  Tim Johnson
>
>From:         Evelyn Duncan <R3EJD@AKRONVM.BITNET>
>
>I know him; he's on belief-l and politics (two of the lists I'm on).
>Let me see, how should I put this:  he likes to have the reputation
>of being mean.  I've learned the best way to deal with him is to act
>just as nastily back to him.
>
>Evelyn

Actually, i know a few other ways to get back at him, but
i won't live through the weekend if i say any of them.

(tim is buds with most of the brown words-lers)

jenna
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Date:         Mon, 17 Aug 1992 13:47:00 EST
From:         GINNY LUNT <VLUNT%DREW.BITNET@uga.cc.uga.edu>
Subject:      Re: When I promise a eulogy, I deliver.

In article <tfilt297968@drew.edu>, Adam Hartfield <AHARTFIE@drew.drew.edu> write
   s:
>
> Come Saturday I'll be going off-net.  I can't afford Drew any longer,
> so I'm taking a semester/possibly a year off to earn some money so I
> can come back and get my degree.

Adam, Adam, Adam, you're being too kind to Drew.  You make it sound
... well ... so voluntary on your part.

For those of you who do not know Adam personally, I have a few words
to say.  Adam is that rare phenomenon, a person truly able to stand
on his own two feet, and hold himself up in a strong wind, while
juggling all of the pieces of the puzzle of life, and yet never
losing the ability to hold out a hand to a friend to give them a
needed boost.  And as Anne so aptly put it ... all this at the age of
20.

I wish it were appropriate to say here all the times and ways that
Adam has made a real difference in my life.  I'm twice his age, as
one of his other friends is fond of pointing out, yet I marvel at
what he's been through, and how he handles himself, and what he has
to give to his friends.  Adam is one of the most generous spirits
known on this plane (or any other, missing or otherwise).

When Adam and Ken join me and Karen for lunch, Adam frequently
wonders if we look like a family to those who don't know us.  Mom and
Pop (me and Ken) and the two kids (Adam and Karen) out for lunch.
Without commenting on the genetic improbability of my having have
spawned anyone of Adam's proportions, I can say this ... Adam, you
are family, if family is based on bonds of friendship, love and
trust.  I'll miss having you here in my everyday, I'll miss your
posts, I'll miss you.  You enrich my life, you enriched Drew with
your presence, you enriched this list with your wit and intelligence
and sensitivity.

Come back soon.

Ginny
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Date:         Fri, 14 Aug 1992 11:24:36 MED
From:         Graham Toal <gtoal@STACK.URC.TUE.NL>
Subject:      Re: Taking names and kicking butts
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Doris - Amsterdam.
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Date:         Fri, 14 Aug 1992 19:31:26 CDT
From:         "Natalie Maynor" <maynor@RA.MSSTATE.EDU>
Subject: Re: Gender
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> The Indians may win that one sooner or later.  I just didn't want
> to give up the fort, in the end, about English being objectively
> sexist.  If I use he/him its *not* evidence that I'm an MCP.
> (Male Chauvinist Pedant ?)  Or that the language is.

I don't see how language can be separated from users of language.

> But was what I was saying reactionary?  What about what I said
> about personhood and blacks--*is* it racist to use person in
> connection with blacks because blacks have not always been
> included in the meaning of person?

That is absurd.  What would the parallel term be for blacks?
   --Natalie (maynor@ra.msstate.edu)
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Date:         Thu, 20 Aug 1992 17:02:28 EDT
From:         Rita Marie Rouvalis <rita@EFF.ORG>
Subject:      Re: List wars
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              92 4:07 pm

	God, I love it when people take my off-the-cuff remarks
seriously.

Rita
You people are far too uptight.
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Date:         Thu, 20 Aug 1992 14:56:32 CDT
From:         "Natalie Maynor" <maynor@RA.MSSTATE.EDU>
Subject:      Re: The sole of a new machine
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> > Just testing from here to see if the list can get messages from
> > a machine running csh under SunOS.
> > Ken
>
> That's the way I send messages to the list (and elm, of course).
> rashmi

This is pretty dumb, I realize, but what do you mean a machine running
csh under SunOS??  Isn't that where I'm sending mail from right now?
   --Natalie (maynor@ra.msstate.edu)
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From: karsten@netcom.com (karsten)
Subject: Re: The D-words 
Date: Wed, 19 Aug 92 20:23:26 GMT
Organization: Karsten's Bit Bucket
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gtoal@pizzabox.demon.co.uk (Graham Toal) writes:
>>Finally the reason for over-smug self-satisfied attitude becomes apparent.
> Oh shit.  I was reading 'karsten' and thinking 'ausbrook'...  Sorry.

Damn.  I thought I might be developing an interesting personality.

--karsten

(Or do we look too much like each other?)
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Date:         Fri, 14 Aug 1992 19:46:00 EST
From:         Judith_Eannarino@OCCSHOST.NLM.NIH.GOV
Subject:      Re: Judith's test
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Seems you can!  Welcome back - where've you been these many months ?

Tony H.

   Thank you very kindly.

   I went a-fishin'...

   Judith E.
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Date:         Fri, 21 Aug 1992 08:30:00 EST
From:         Entropy Warrior <AUSBROOK%IUBACS.BITNET@uga.cc.uga.edu>
Subject:      Old machines

>Ruth, honey chile, I was typing on electric keyboards before you were born!

Do did you also have an IBM typewriter with a gasoline engine?

-Mka
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From: karsten@netcom.com (karsten)
Subject: Re: Comments on this phrase
Date: Thu, 20 Aug 92 18:54:34 GMT
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AUSBROOK@UCS.INDIANA.EDU (Entropy Warrior) writes:
> It's the only example that I know of tmesis in English.

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...)
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Date:         Sat, 15 Aug 1992 23:07:00 EDT
From:         Gilbert Smith <N567126@NCSUADM.ACS.NCSU.EDU>
Subject: Re: Today's Trivia
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> Giggles... never mind.
.
I want to hear the joke!  I want to hear the joke!
I am so upset about not hearing the joke that I just cant
hardly <think straight>!!!!
I want to hear the joke!
--ggs
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Date:         Fri, 14 Aug 1992 15:14:10 MST
From:         Dan Lester <ALILESTE@IDBSU.IDBSU.EDU>
Subject:      Re: The newest Diffily
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              14 Aug 1992 11:21:23 EDT from
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On Fri, 14 Aug 1992 11:21:23 EDT Elaine M Brennan said:
>is named Kevin Bernard, and weighed in at 7 lbs. 1 oz.
                ^^^^^^^
      Do you spose this is the first baby ever named after an electronic dog?



      dan
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