[Ads-l] "smacks loudly"

[Wilson Gray]

It should be

"smacks strongly"

This _smack_ is the one cognate with German _schmecken_ "taste (good)," and
not the onomatopoetic _smack!_.

-- 
-Wilson
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All say, "How hard it is that we have to die!"---a strange complaint to
come from the mouths of people who have had to live.
-Mark Twain

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