Regus

[Jonathan Lighter]

But TAFKAP/TAFALKAP mean "the artist formerly [and latterly] known as
'Prince."'

They don't mean the ideogram that means that.

JL

On Fri, Mar 2, 2012 at 2:03 PM, Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at yale.edu>wrote:

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> On Mar 2, 2012, at 8:42 AM, Jonathan Lighter wrote:
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> > I meant  " 'the artist formerly and latterly known as "Prince".' "
>  That's
> > my pronunciation of the now disused ideogram.
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> > JL
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> "TAFKAP" was big for a while.  I guess "TAFALKAP" would constitute a
> natural evolution of the label, although it might be confused with
> "tassel-cap".
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> LH
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> > On Fri, Mar 2, 2012 at 8:40 AM, Jonathan Lighter <wuxxmupp2000 at gmail.com
> >wrote:
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> >> Like the artist formerly and latterly known as "Prince."
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> >> JL
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