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Laurence Horn laurence.horn at YALE.EDU
Fri Dec 3 01:08:14 UTC 2010


At 5:01 PM -0800 12/2/10, Arnold Zwicky wrote:
>On Dec 2, 2010, at 4:56 PM, i wrote:
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>  > and a few for "assholar", and somewhat more for "assholic".

And the more creative "assholistic", as in ____ healthcare.

>
>and rather more for "cockular" and "dickular", referring to penises.
>
>arnold
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and curiously, lots more for "perpendickular" than for
"perpencockular", both with transparent meanings.  Well, the latter
with indirect transparent meaning.  (Recall earlier thread on
"ridickulous", "re-cockulous", et al.)

LH

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