Re: syllable importance
| From: | Steg Belsky <draqonfayir@...> |
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| Date: | Thursday, February 19, 2004, 13:52 |
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On Thursday, February 19, 2004, at 06:44 AM, John Cowan wrote:
> Being incomparable may be lexical, but how comparison is done can't be,
> because I have no trouble calling "wug:wugger:wuggest" the Right Thing,
> and likewise "frazzbazzle:more frazbazzle:most frazbazzle",
> and rejecting "*more wug" and "*frazbazzlest".
>
Interesting... because "frazbazzlest" sounds perfectly fine to me. To
be specific, it sounds like some silly (but perfectly legal)
pseudo-HipHop adjective in a television commercial. "It's the
frazbazzlest!"
-Stephen (Steg)
"shizzle my nizzle"
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