subliterate

[Jonathan Lighter]

HDAS wouldn't list it.

But maybe that's tunnel vision.

JL

On Fri, Oct 29, 2010 at 2:50 PM, Joel S. Berson <Berson at att.net> wrote:

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> John Lighter, would HDAS call this "underground humour"?
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> Joel
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> At 10/29/2010 11:45 AM, Laurence Horn wrote:
> >At 11:34 AM -0400 10/29/10, Joel S. Berson wrote:
> >>At 10/29/2010 11:13 AM, Paul Frank wrote:
> >>>Incidentally, I don't see "subliterate" in my paper edition of the
> >>>OED2 and, being one of the great unwashed, I can't afford an online
> >>>subscription.
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> >>For your cleansing, it's in the OED, with earliest quotation from
> >>1958.  It also has subliterature (1961), presumably what one reads
> >>while commuting on the subway.
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> >>Joel
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> >and "subletter", a missive written on the subway by one who doesn't
> >rent directly from his/her landlord/landlady
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