whipping words

[Geoff Nathan]

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Geoff

Geoffrey S. Nathan
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and Associate Professor, Linguistics Program
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----- "Garson O'Toole" <adsgarsonotoole at GMAIL.COM> wrote:

> From: "Garson O'Toole" <adsgarsonotoole at GMAIL.COM>
> To: ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU
> Sent: Thursday, December 10, 2009 12:23:51 PM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern
> Subject: Re: whipping words
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> Poster:       Garson O'Toole <adsgarsonotoole at GMAIL.COM>
> Subject:      Re: whipping words
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> Laurence Horn wrote
> > At 10:41 AM -0500 12/10/09, Joel S. Berson wrote:
> >>Can you rule out that it's the imperative?
> >
> > I think we can given the intonation.
>
> The commercial is viewable on YouTube if you wish to see the
> intonation and the context:
>
> A Dominatrix Gets Crackin' with Pistachios Commercial
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mdsAD-sSM4Y
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