On Jun 10, 2006, at 5:31 PM, Julia Thompson wrote:
Ronn!Blankenship wrote:
<<http://www.sciencenews.org/articles/20060610/bob8.asp>>
Linguists have a fun time, as well:
http://heideas.blogspot.com/2005/03/beyond-embiggens-and-
cromulent.html
Including the term "snowclone"! Yay! And links to other Simpsons
linguistic pages.
The linguist in me loves ths about the Simpsons...
From the page:
Episode: ‘Weekend at Burnsie’s.’ Episode # 1316, DABF11
Spelling pronunciation
Phish: reading an announcement, says ‘potheads’ as ‘po-theeds’
Backformation:
Otto says ‘They call them fingers but I never see them fing.’
In Peggy's family, a standard friendly insult is to call someone a
"far-theed" (from one of the sisters' having seen "farthead" written
somewhere).
And when we were having some work done on the house, I pointed to a
board laying on the ground and called it a "fent", because it is part
of the "fents" that surround our yard.
Dave
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