Russian racehorses, Cooter Brown, fast foxes, theft, expense

[Nancy Elliott]

Arnold,

Did you borrow the term "normals" from Science Fiction usage? (Babylon 5,
etc.)

Nancy Elliott
Southern Oregon ("Orygun") University

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>From: Arnold Zwicky <zwicky at CSLI.STANFORD.EDU>
>To: ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU
>Subject: Re: Russian racehorses, Cooter Brown, fast foxes, theft, expense
>Date: Sun, Mar 19, 2000, 8:32 AM
>

> dInIs, you ole idiot, i think "real people" is a fine term.
>
> my suggestion of "normals" was not entirely unserious.
>
> as for the new Folk Linguistics volume, isn't that one of those
> books that costs about the same as a month's rent?  like spencer
> & zwicky's Handbook of Morphology?
>
> maybe there should be a competition for Wonderful Books Real
> People Can't Afford.
>
> arnold (zwicky at csli.stanford.edu)
>