Re: Lunatic Survey

On Fri, 25 Sep 1998, And Rosta wrote:

> Sally
> > When I queried about Yaguillo's _Lunatic Lovers of Language_, I got a
> > couple of fairly negative responses.  I checked that book out of our
> > library, and I found myself enthralled with it, primarily because she uses
> > the term "lunatic."
>
> She actually used _fou_, I believe. I think the original title was
> _Foux de langage_, which seems much better to me. _fou_, or Italian
> _pazzo_, seems apter than _lunatic_. Maybe "Mad for language" gets
> closer.
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~And.
Thank you, And.  That's valuable.  "Mad" is what she's aiming for, but her
translator seems to be looking for an alliteration with "language."

Talk to you later, Sally

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