Re: CHAT: feckly off-topic (was: THEORY: Storage Vs. Computation)
| From: | Ed Heil <edheil@...> |
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| Date: | Tuesday, June 22, 1999, 20:29 |
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But "Pulchritude" is a fun word *because* it sounds like the opposite
of what it means.
Violating phonosemantics is a form of play too!
+ Ed Heil ---------------------- edheil@postmark.net +
| "What matter that you understood no word! |
| Doubtless I spoke or sang what I had heard |
| In broken sentences." --Yeats |
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BP Jonsson wrote:
> At 23:59 +0200 19.6.1999, Boudewijn Rempt wrote:
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> >I like pulchritude, actually, although it sounds like a skin disease.
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> The way my Latin teacher pronounced "pulcher" ['puLxEr] it sounded like a
> form of diphtheria, actually! ;-)
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