yahoo

[Scot LaFaive]

> So when I report my experience it's ego-centric, but when you report yours it's not?

I think she was probably referring to this statement that you had
made: "I've never heard anyone called a "yahoo".  It's rare." It
sounds as if you are calling this sense rare based on you not hearing
it used that way much, while in reality that sense might not be rare
at all to the majority, just rare to you.

Scot

On Wed, Apr 2, 2008 at 11:59 AM, Tom Zurinskas <truespel at hotmail.com> wrote:
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> So when I report my experience it's ego-centric, but when you report yours it's not?  Who has the flawed thinking here?  Watch out everyone, Amy West thinks that anyone who reports their own experience is being ego-centric - except her that is.
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> > Date: Wed, 2 Apr 2008 09:31:39 -0400
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> > Subject: Re: yahoo
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> > The yay-hoo pron is from Swift's work: the two groups are named
> > onomatopoetically (?). The Hwhynums (?) (too lazy to go down and look
> > in Swift) are named based on the horse's whinny sound. The Yahoos are
> > based on what sounds humans make (Yay! Hoo!).
> >
> > I call people "yahoos" all the time. So do others in my family.
> > You're engaging in some very egocentric thinking, which is flawed.
> >
> >>We should all be familiar with the "yahoo.com" ads on TV. It's
> >>pronounced YAH-hoo (~yaahue), or even yah-HOO (~yaahhue) in the TV
> >>ads, not YAY-hoo as m-w.com says (not that m-w.com isn't a great
> >>resource). The ad pronunciation is perhaps a billion times more
> >>frequent in the ears of most folks than any other.
> >
> > ---Amy West
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