Words beginning graduate students don't know

[Laurence Horn]

On Oct 11, 2013, at 11:21 AM, Joel S. Berson wrote:

> Linguistic migration.  From sea to shining sea ... Hudson River,
> Kentucky River, Pacific -- palisades all.  Go West, young shad,* be
> fruitful and spawn.
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> Joel
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> * Although I think shad do not reside in the Pacific.

They migrated to the surf west of L.A. and evolved into Chads, quite plentiful in Pacific Palisades.

LH
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> At 10/11/2013 10:31 AM, Baker, John wrote:
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>> I think many of us are more familiar with the meaning "a line of
>> steep cliffs especially along a river or ocean" than with the
>> meaning "a fence of stakes especially for defense," although the
>> latter is the older meaning.  In my case, I think first of the
>> Kentucky River Palisades.  Apparently the Hudson Palisades were the original.
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>> John Baker
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>> Torbert is correct:
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>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palisade
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>> > From: "Benjamin Torbert" <btorbert at GMAIL.COM>
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>> > I thought palisades were a bunch of vertical bis-ass logs. Correct me
>> > if
>> > I'm wrong.
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>> > Torbert
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>> > On Thu, Oct 10, 2013 at 11:29 PM, W Brewer <brewerwa at gmail.com>
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>> > > Postdoctorally, I resided at the Hoffleit house for a year or so in
>> > > Pacific
>> > > Palisades CA, so I think palisades must be cliffs. But I don't know
>> > > the
>> > > last word in the list. What's a <geoff>?
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