Spin-In

[Mark A Mandel]

On Tue, 19 Mar 2002, Laurence Horn wrote:

#At 12:15 PM -0500 3/19/02, James A. Landau wrote:
#>Some other words or phrases of interest in this article:
#>...
#>"stupid accounting tricks"---"stupid .... tricks" is in my
#>experience a phrase used only by computer people (I remember a
#>collection of "stupid UNIX tricks" in the newspaper Computerworld
#>several years back) but it could easily have arisen elsewhere.
#>
#What about the "Stupid Pet Tricks" that Letterman has been featuring
#off and on for decades?  (Spawning references to "stupid human
#tricks".)

Yes, that's how I characterize my abilities to pronounce Klingon,
kifish, and other non-human languages.

-- Dr. Whom, Consulting Linguist, Grammarian, Orthoepist, and
   Philological Busybody
   a.k.a. Mark A. Mandel