Synonymy avoidance

[Jonathan Lighter]

The only retraining needed was to quit biting the heads off chickens.

Otherwise, see HDAS.

JL

Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at YALE.EDU> wrote:
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Sender: American Dialect Society
Poster: Laurence Horn
Subject: Re: Synonymy avoidance
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At 1:05 PM -0600 3/10/05, Mullins, Bill wrote:
>When did geek evolve from the guy who eats dead chickens at the carnival
>to the guy who knows how to set the clock on the VCR?
>

when the carnival sideshows were phased out and those guys had to
undergo job retraining?


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