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Thanks to wordnerd for another marketing ploy unmasked! The original list is updated. Canola is a ......
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September 05, 2004 20:06
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kalleh mentions "risus sardonicus," -- a facial muscle spasm most often caused tetanus. I had previ......
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September 03, 2004 04:23
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The earliest reference I find is to the movie by Fellini (1960). As a footnote from IMDB.com: "Ask......
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September 01, 2004 19:58
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Permit me to differ, wordcrafter. I take a vaguely negative connotation. There is a long way, in t......
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September 01, 2004 09:28
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Likewise, we are fortunate the advertising geniuses (genii?) who used ......
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August 31, 2004 20:44
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Excellent. Marketing euphemisms are red meat to the Wordcraft crowd -- identified and extended. Th......
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August 31, 2004 19:37
RE: Ethnic slurs of the Classical Greeks
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It is also not impossible, that the marketing person failed to distinguish Spanish accent from Greek......
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August 31, 2004 14:46
RE: Words from Italian
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I am sure our thread-leader has gathered many wonderful contributions from Italian, the mother tongu......
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August 31, 2004 13:55
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To demonstrate the power of the word, I offer a list of old products, whose performance in the marke......
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August 30, 2004 19:43
RE: Ethnic slurs of the Classical Greeks
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...and now we know why Ricardo Montalban was smiling....
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August 30, 2004 12:44
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Going back to Seanahan's observation -- Surely Michiganders refers to only half the population. Mig......
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August 28, 2004 08:23
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"One wonders what the whistling wind Will bring us on the morrow Such sweet success as ever sinned O......
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August 28, 2004 08:08
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Thanks to BobHale for his patience -- I take his point about the current focus being on form "automa......
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August 27, 2004 12:59
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If evocation is the key characteristic of poetry, then I offer Donne's prose sermon: "It comes equa......
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August 27, 2004 10:53
RE: Ethnic slurs of the Classical Greeks
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Not to be confused with Laocoönic......
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August 27, 2004 07:52
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If recollection serves, the Boeotians(from the polis of Platea) were the only Greeks to join the Ath......
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August 24, 2004 07:55
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Asa begins what might become a fine flood of Greek humor. To staunch the flow, I confess the refere......
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August 20, 2004 05:00
RE: Oxonian
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PS: Anyone interested in the Cleopatra joke involving Greek surnames may inquire by private message......
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August 19, 2004 07:22
RE: Oxonian
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We often see "ite" as a place identifier -- Brooklynite and Manhattanite. Of course with my own sur......
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August 19, 2004 07:20
RE: Pronunciation of "schadenfreude"
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Well, it's an interesting question, shufitz. I'VE always pronounced "bitter envy..."...
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