Still pumpin' 'em out after all these years
Arnold Zwicky
zwicky at STANFORD.EDU
Wed Feb 5 18:41:33 UTC 2014
On Feb 5, 2014, at 10:13 AM, Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at YALE.EDU> wrote:
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> On Feb 5, 2014, at 1:07 PM, Arnold Zwicky wrote:
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>> On Feb 5, 2014, at 9:26 AM, Jonathan Lighter <wuxxmupp2000 at GMAIL.COM> wrote:
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>>> Thus the elision in the pronunciation "Sappo."
>>>
>>> BTW, Roz Chast once published a cartoon strip about parents trying to
>>> explain the poem, "The Man with a Hoe," to their teenager. You don't need
>>> to see it because it practically rewrites itself.
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>> i would love to use this for the Language of the Comics at Stanford this quarter, but i haven't been able to find it through searches. any clue as to where i can find it? (searching through all the Chast cartoons available online one by one is not a viable alternative.)
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>> arnold
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> See link in my previous e-mail. I assume you can lift it from that (admirably eclectic) blog, with permission from Italian Greyhounds. As acknowledged, though, it's a wrinkled copy.
YES! thanks so much. not a great copy, but i'll try to improve it.
arnold
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