[Ads-l] "smacks loudly"

[Jonathan Lighter]

"Sudcategory," OTOH, was just a typo.

JL

On Fri, Aug 21, 2015 at 9:16 AM, Jonathan Lighter <wuxxmupp2000 at gmail.com>
wrote:

> We lexicographers call it "poetic license," sudcategory "humor."
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> JL
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> On Thu, Aug 20, 2015 at 11:55 PM, Wilson Gray <hwgray at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> It should be
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>> "smacks strongly"
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>> This _smack_ is the one cognate with German _schmecken_ "taste (good),"
>> and
>> not the onomatopoetic _smack!_.
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