Harpoonics

[victor steinbok]

And the Three Stooges?

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On Mon, Apr 19, 2010 at 1:27 PM, Arnold Zwicky <zwicky at stanford.edu> wrote:
>
> On Apr 19, 2010, at 10:14 AM, Joel S. Berson wrote:
>
>> At 4/19/2010 11:54 AM, John & Russell Rickford quoted (in a cite by
>> Arnold Zwicky):
>>> Eskimo-American Speak - Harpoonics
>>
>> Isn't that the language of one of the Marx brothers?  But I thought
>> he was unaccustomed to public speaking.
>
> no, no, you're thinking of Harponics (to go along with Grouchonics,
> Chiconics, and sometimes Zepponics). Harpo spoke with his fingers, on
> the strings.
>
> arnold

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