back-formation of the day

Wilson Gray hwgray at GMAIL.COM
Sat May 4 09:33:16 UTC 2013


On Thu, May 2, 2013 at 6:55 PM, Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at yale.edu>wrote:

> to patient-dump


In my estimation, this kind of thing is becoming so common that it's far
too late for me to concern myself with finishing that paper on "exotic"
languages in which this kind of thing commonly occurs. It's simply become
too ordinary in English for anyone to care anymore that it occurs in
certain dialects of Infernic spoken by the indigenous population of West
Hell and Jinnigawl.


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-Wilson
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