Choad/Chode--ask RCrumb

[degustibus]

R. Crumb is still alive.

Why doesn't someone just ...... ask him?

Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at YALE.EDU> wrote:
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Subject: Re: Choad/Chode--origin?
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>On 12 Sep 2003, at 8:20, James Smith wrote:
>
>> Who are you trying to kid? We're talking about
>> hormone-crazed youth.
>
>Yeah, but these were hormone-crazed youth with a jones for the
>transcendant. Would someone serious enough about eastern
>religion to have traveled all the way to India be inclined to use
>smutty street talk to describe the sex act? It seems more likely to
>me that they'd go the euphemizing route.
>
>Of course, we can speculate and psychologize until the

[sacred]

>cows
>come home, but without solid linguistic backing it's all basically
>just an exercise in creating fantasy scenarios. There needs to be
>something more than plausibility behind a hypothesis before the
>OED (or Merriam, or any reputable dictionary publisher) takes it
>seriously.
>
Indeed; an alternate equally wild-eyed (but more Occidental)
speculation would posit R. Crumb (or whoever) deriving it via a
spelling pronunciation of Fr. _chaud_. Which I'm not endorsing.

larry

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