new (non-)coinage ("vagitarian")

[Wilson Gray]

Whew! Thanks, Larry. As soon as I had clicked on "Send," I got the horrrible
feeling that I had been too casual in my definition, that I was just begging
for the troll to come out from under the bridge. That was a close one! ;-)

-Wilson


On 2/27/06, Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at yale.edu> wrote:
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> Subject:      Re: new (non-)coinage ("vagitarian")
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> >It's just a way of saying that x is absolutely coextensive with y in size
> >and shape. It's one of the few things that I more or less recall from an
> >intro to mathematical linguistics course that I took back in 1972.
> >
> >-Wilson
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> Oh, for a minute there I thought you were talking about "vagitarian",
> which I didn't recall from my own mathematical linguistics course.
> Never mind.
>
> LH
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> >On 2/27/06, Mark A. Mandel <mamandel at ldc.upenn.edu> wrote:
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> >>  Wilson sez:
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> >>  Of course, BE speakers also say, "eat cock," with the same meaning. In
> >>  fact,
> >>  "Yes, ma'am, I eat cock, too," in which "cock" is a one-to-one and
> onto
> >>  synonym of "pussy," is the punchline of a joke. OTOH, the universal
> use of
> >>  "cock" for "penis" by white authors spoiled a whole lot of
> umliterature
> >>  for
> >>  me, till I had read enough of it that I finally became accustomed to
> it.
> >>
> >>  <<<
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> >>  "a one-to-one and onto synonym"? Sorry, amigo, that terminology goes
> right
> >>  past me. Translation, please.
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> >>  -- Mark
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