back-formation of the day

[Jonathan Lighter]

Is Jinnegawl that place between Senegal and Virginia? News to me.

JL


On Sat, May 4, 2013 at 5:33 AM, Wilson Gray <hwgray at gmail.com> wrote:

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