"teabonics"

[Laurence Horn]

At 8:38 AM -0500 4/19/10, Cohen, Gerald Leonard wrote:
>There's Hebronics.  For the humorous details, just check Google.
>
>Gerald Cohen

I thought "Hillbonics" was a reference to (faux) Appalachian (as in
"hillbilly") rather than to (faux) Yinglish, which as mentioned was
usually "Hebonics" (non-rhotically), at least in the web versions I
recall.

LH

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>Message from David Barnhart, Mon 4/19/2010 7:19 AM:
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>When I mentioned _teabonics_ to the conferees at the ADS-Northeast Region
>meeting at SUNY-New Paltz this past weekend, someone in the audience
>(perhaps Dennis Preston) mentioned having heard or seen _Hillbonics_.  Any
>other _-bonics_ would be much appreciated.
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