deliberate misspellings

Victoria Neufeldt vneufeldt at MERRIAM-WEBSTER.COM
Wed Mar 28 03:14:35 UTC 2001


Kafka's novel "Amerika" maybe?  Not sure why, but I seem to remember
thinking that that was the allusion.

Victoria Neufeldt
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>From Peter A. McGraw, Tuesday, March 27, 2001 6:39 PM:
> I was never quite sure what the k in this one was supposed to
> signify.  The
> German spelling of "America"?  One of the k's in KKK?
>
> Peter Mc.
>
> --On Tuesday, March 27, 2001 10:41 AM +0800 Laurence Horn
> <laurence.horn at YALE.EDU> wrote:
>
> > For an earlier politically motivated misspelling, cf. "Amerika"
> > (among anti-Vietnam War activists from the late '60's).
> >
> > larry



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