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- From: jzimm@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (Joann Zimmerman)
- Newsgroups: rec.arts.books
- Subject: Re: *Any* kind of r.a.b split, or at least a *serious* discussion
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- Date: 3 Jan 93 20:08:03 GMT
- References: <1993Jan2.225827.2318@netcom.com>
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- In article <1993Jan2.225827.2318@netcom.com> Tom Maddox,
- tmaddox@netcom.com writes:
- >In article <1huq85INNq5j@morrow.stanford.edu> francis@oas.stanford.edu
- (Francis
- >Muir) writes:
- >>Tom Maddox writes:
- >
- >> disingenumous
- >
- >[Fido replies]:
- >>Nevertheless, Tom does demonstrate a humungous ingenuity for neologs.
- >
- > Not a "neolog" (which I believe is itself a neologism, for
- >neologism, if you see what I mean) but a double typo--that I, for one,
- >rather like; it seems to be a portmanteau word of some sort, but I'm
- >not sure what's packed into that suitcase. Any conjectures?
-
- Humongous disingenuousness (she says, typing *very* carefully). You will
- note that I do not agree with Francis' spelling of what was itself a
- neologism some twenty-five years ago.
- --
-
- "They like sitting around reading all the books there are. And then they
- love arguing about them. Some of those arguments go on for millenium
- after millenium. It just seems to keep them young, for some reason,
- arguing about books." -- Julian Barnes
-
- Joann Zimmerman (jzimm@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu)
-