Birth of a nova--not?

[Laurence Horn]

At 11:24 AM -0800 1/21/06, Arnold M. Zwicky wrote:
>On Jan 20, 2006, at 6:49 PM, Larry Horn wrote, about double dactyls:
>
>>a few more (if Arnold et alii will pardon the half-rhymes in the
>>first two) appear below...
>
>pardon?!  i *celebrate* half-rhymes.  privately and also professionally.
>
>arnold

Well, yes.  My comment was more properly enthymematic for an
expression of a concern that you hold the official linguistic
copyright on the franchise, upon which I might have been encroaching
by citing those exemplars.

L

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