playful morphology

[Wilson Gray]

Thanks to both arnold and Doug. I can't stand that ad. But that's the
point, I guess. As the saying goes, "There's no such thing as bad
publicity."

-Wilson

On 8/28/06, Arnold M. Zwicky <zwicky at csli.stanford.edu> wrote:
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> on the current Snickers ad campaign, with a mention of our own
> michael quinion:
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> AZ, 8/28/06: Playing with your morphology:
>   http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/003514.html
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-Wilson
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Everybody says, "How hard it is that we have to die"––a strange
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