honcho > honchas

[Wilson Gray]

Any y'all come across "machisma," yet? Though, in my experience, it's
quite rare, it has nevertheless been around for about a
quarter-century.

-Wilson

On 2/1/07, Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at yale.edu> wrote:
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> At 1:37 PM -0500 2/1/07, Mark A. Mandel wrote:
> >Didn't we have a discussion here of "macha"?
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> >-- Mark
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> Yeah, but at least "macho" isn't a Japanese import.
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> LH
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