"Up tight" redux

[Wilson Gray]

The word that I was searching for is "tease." But I didn't want to
sound like a pussy. I was trying to come up with a more manly
expresssion. ;-)

-Wilson

On 9/8/05, Benjamin Zimmer <bgzimmer at rci.rutgers.edu> wrote:
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> Poster:       Benjamin Zimmer <bgzimmer at RCI.RUTGERS.EDU>
> Subject:      Re: "Up tight" redux
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> On Thu, 8 Sep 2005 23:29:11 -0400, Wilson Gray <hwgray at GMAIL.COM> wrote:
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> >Exactly so, Ben. (Am I correct in detecting a note of irony or,
> >perhaps, even sarcasm, in your response?) In any case, I agree with
> >your analysis as to how the truly relevant example came to be
> >overlooked.
>
> Where are those darned prosodicons when you need them? I need one for
> "gentle irony, not rising to the level of sarcasm, with a self-deprecating
> note of sympathy stemming from similar memory lapses of one's own"...
>
>
> --Ben Zimmer
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-Wilson Gray