Blocks of woof [Was: _The r-word_ ]

[Jonathan Lighter]

You think I meant "wood," don't you?

It says "from block of woof." I don't know what could be clearer than that.

JL

On Thu, Feb 23, 2012 at 10:30 AM, Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at yale.edu>wrote:

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> On Feb 23, 2012, at 9:41 AM, Joel S. Berson wrote:
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> > At 2/23/2012 09:18 AM, Jonathan Lighter wrote:
> >> and one could whittle
> >> incredibly realistic animals from  block of woof while the others were
> >> doing the above.
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> > Woof, woof!  ("Hear, hear!" in Whoofish.  Both the expression and the
> > language name as pronounced by the a-rhotic.)
> >
> > Joel
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> Unfortunately, such pronunciations have been argued to inevitably affect
> one's perceptions and thoughts.  It's called the Woof Hypothesis.
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> LH
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