[Ads-l] Kavanaugh yearbook

[victor steinbok]

Thanks. That was the interpretation that I had as well. I had acquired the
verb a few years later, well post the undergrad years which, ironically
coincided with Kavanaugh's. I had an excuse - my English was very limited
in 1983

VS-)

On Wed, Sep 26, 2018, 8:45 PM Chris Waigl <chris at lascribe.net> wrote:

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> My partner Melinda, who was born in 1956 and grew up mostly in Virginia (a
> little, but not much, further out of DC than the people in question), uses
> the verb ralph in this sense.
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> Chris
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> On Wed, Sep 26, 2018 at 7:25 PM Arnold M. Zwicky <zwicky at stanford.edu>
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> > > > On Sep 26, 2018, at 4:20 PM, Arnold M. Zwicky <zwicky at STANFORD.EDU>
> > > wrote:
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> > > >>
> > > >
> > > > from my undergrad years, 1958-62: "to ralph" was a (very) common
> > > alternative to "to barf", both sound-symbolic / echoic / imitative for
> > 'to
> > > vomit' (and both attested from the 1960s...)
> > >
> > > addendum: my experience was not just from 1958-62, but from the Ivy
> > League
> > > -- usage from guys who seem to have brought the vocabulary with them
> from
> > > (mostly Eastern) prep schools.
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