Name Game

Mark Mandel thnidu at GMAIL.COM
Sat Jun 26 02:26:25 UTC 2010


Just tired. And been reading Wilson's posts. I *meant* to do
that.<http://www.echoschildren.org/CDlyrics/IMeantToDoThat.html>Really.

m a m

On Fri, Jun 25, 2010 at 9:42 PM, Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at yale.edu>wrote:

> At 9:15 PM -0400 6/25/10, Mark Mandel wrote:
> >Thass weird. What I assume you meant as a u + grave accent comes out here
> a=
> s
> >a u with right hook (ugh!) -- I mean, ogonek, U+0173.
> >
> >m a m
>
> Yup, I typed it as an "u" with a grave, and it=20
> came out (here, although not on the version I=20
> received) as a "u" with a little right hook.  On=20
> the other hand, your "That's" came out as=20
> "Thass", and you probably hadn't even been=20
> drinking.
>
> LH
>
> >
> >On Fri, Jun 25, 2010 at 8:45 PM, Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at yale.edu
> >wrot=
> e:
> >
> >>  At 8:38 PM -0400 6/25/10, Bill Palmer wrote:
> >  > >Yesterday WUNC-FM interviewed an NC public
> >  > >servant named Sue Dayton.  If she is single, I
> >>  >hope her Mr Right turns out to be Mr. Land.
> >>  >
> >>  >Bill P
> >>
> >>  Mais o=97 sont les Sudetenland d'antan?
> >>
> >>
> >
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