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17 January 2006 * Volume 07
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From: Heather Rendall <HeatherRendall at compuserve.com>
Subject: LL-L "Orthography" 2006.01.17 (02) [E]

Message text written by INTERNET:lowlands-l at LOWLANDS-L.NET
>How many problems do you have with homophones when
      you speak or listen to someone speak?<

Personally none - but much of the essence of English comedy lies in the
double entendres and comic effects of homophones

Heather

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From: Ben J. Bloomgren <Ben.Bloomgren at asu.edu>
Subject: LL-L "Orthography" 2006.01.17 (02) [E]

Good thing I had my set of little strap-on horns handy (though its rubber 
band is getting a bit tired) ...

Mkay, lemmy guess here. You're the big kahuna whering horns? I'll just stay 
far away while you're in that other realm! I love your little statements 
like that, Ron. When I come to Seattle, I'm gonna try to meet you and wrack 
your brain!

'io lani

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From: R. F. Hahn <sassisch at yahoo.com>
Subject: Orthography

Hi, good sports!

Our Heather:

> but much of the essence of English comedy lies in the
> double entendres and comic effects of homophones

Yeah?  And?  Do you need different spelling for that?  If you can do it in 
spoken form you can do it in the same way in written form.  Roygh'?

My most satisfyingly appreciative friend Ben, a.k.a. my kahunic disciple 'Io 
Lani:

> Mkay, lemmy guess here. You're the big kahuna whering horns?

Sure!  Why not?  A kahuna can never wear too much finery.  But, actually, I 
meant it to be a thinly veiled reference to "devil's advocate." 
Service-adjusted sympathetic horns ... Get it?  As our lawyer friends Arthur 
and Vlad will attest, an advocate (= barrister, solicitor, lawyer) can never 
be too flexible.  For this reason, I carry in my other pocket a set of tiny 
strap-on wings, and I wear those more often than the horns, though I'm told 
I look equally sexy ("toadly hot") wearing either.

> I love your little statements like that, Ron.

I aim to please a broad spectrum of folks.

> When I come to Seattle, I'm gonna try to meet you and wrack your brain!

If I'm still here then.  And bring your umbrella and your wellies (rubber 
boots)!  Besides, I much prefer my brain to be picked.  Except at the 
moment, since I sustained a mild head injury last Tuesday evening (no, not 
in a drunken brawl!) and am still having lots of headaches.  (And I will put 
up with no smarty-pants remarks from the peanut gallery in this connection.)

Aloha!
Reinhard/Ron 

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