"fuckery"

[Jonathan Lighter]

As I've often suggested, nothing is too stupidiculous.

JL

On Fri, Jul 10, 2009 at 10:49 AM, Benjamin Zimmer <
bgzimmer at babel.ling.upenn.edu> wrote:

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> On Fri, Jul 10, 2009 at 10:22 AM, Jonathan
> Lighter<wuxxmupp2000 at gmail.com> wrote:
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> > A blend of "fucking  + mockery."
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> Oh, like a traveshamockery?
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> http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=1112
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> > On Fri, Jul 10, 2009 at 4:35 AM, Russ McClay <mcclay at taolodge.com>
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> >> I've only come across "fuckery" twice.  Once
> >> here with this thread and another time in
> >> an article, in which it used in a completely
> >> different way.  Had to share!
> >>
> >> * * *
> >>
> >> The CIA helped Seaga and his cohorts in
> >> Colombia's Cali cartel pour weapons and coke into
> >> Jamaica during the 1980 elections, when he
> >> defeated Manley. But while Seago was smuggling
> >> blow and guns in by the ton, the DEA was pushing
> >> him to burn down the nation's ganja fields.
> >>
> >> "What a fuckery that mon there chant!" laments one
> >> grower of a Seaga emissary's antidrug rhetoric.
> >> "Him come up fi' tell we is pure orange and
> >> banana we must plant again.  An' him know ganja
> >> we haffi grow up here to survive!"
> >>
> >> "High Times" magazine, September 1995, Page 16
> >> Review of _Born Fi' Dead: A Journey Through the
> >> Jamaican Posse Underworld_ by Lauries Gunst
> >>
> >> * * *
> >>
> >> Russ
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