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[Dennis R. Preston]

What academic (since we are such a bunch) definition of folklore
would point to a "recklessness of details"?

dInIs

>Peter Lucko pointed out to me that
>
>>>>>>
>"Hermann Goebbels" would be a contamination of names: it was Hermann Goehring
>und Joseph Goebbels.
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>
>Correct, of course, and I never noticed it! But folklore is almost
>by definition reckless of details.
>
>-- Mark A. Mandel

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