wierd acronym

[Wilson Gray]

Prof. Polkinghorne is pullinng your leg, Barbara. His is a reference
to what has become an inside joke among the more mature among the
linguisterati, to coin a term that, with any luck, won't get much
traction, to coin a phrase.

-Wilson

On Thu, Sep 3, 2009 at 10:48 AM, Barbara Need<bhneed at gmail.com> wrote:
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> On 3 Sep 2009, at 9:07 AM, Laurence Horn wrote:
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>> At 6:54 AM -0700 9/3/09, James A. Landau <JJJRLandau at netscape.com>
>> wrote:
>>> HUNS = Hanoi University of the Natural Sciences
>>>
>>>     - Jim Landau
>>>
>> Better than the acronym for the South Hanoi Institute of Technology,
>> the affiliation of the late great linguist Quang Phuc Dong.
>
> Well, that's what I thought of!
>
> Barbara
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> Barbara Need
> Chicago
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