"Write what you hear"

[Wilson Gray]

So, my guy merely misspelled the "standard" misspelling. Sigh! ;-)

-Wilson

On 2/15/06, Arnold M. Zwicky <zwicky at csli.stanford.edu> wrote:
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> On Feb 15, 2006, at 6:44 AM, Wilson Gray wrote:
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> > Apple's "magic smoke," it's _jene se qua_, that keeps customers coming
> > back and paying that "Mac Tax" ...
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> on soc.motss and soc.bi, "jennesequa" has become the conventional
> misspelling of the expression, part of the in-group language.
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> google asks if i meant "genesequa", and indeed there are a lot more
> hits for that one.
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> arnold
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