OT: pejorativers

[ronbutters at AOL.COM]

PERJNAP is not a term that I am familiar with. I think it is hard not to see it as a typo for PERHAPS. But even if one construes it as a noun, why would it have to be construed as pejorative (hey, it doesn't end in -er or -nik). Wouldn't it make more sense to see the phrase after PERJNAP to be a definition of a clinical term PERJNAP?
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From: Laurence Horn
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At 3:30 PM +0000 11/23/09, ronbutters at aol.com wrote:
>Huh?

Note the **highlighted** elements below.  I thought it was pretty
funny myself, even if your message (and typos) were taken a bit out
of context and even if I've never personally seen you go around
calling everyone a perjnap...

LH

>------Original Message------
>From: Joel S. Berson
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>At 11/22/2009 09:39 PM, RonButters at AOL.COM wrote:
>  >  and (2) **people are perjnaps**[,]
>  >more **likely to make up odd names for things they don't approve
>of** than things
>  >they do.
>
>Clearly Ron doesn't approve of people.  8-))
>
>Joel
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