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Re: syllable importance

From:Steg Belsky <draqonfayir@...>
Date:Thursday, February 19, 2004, 13:52
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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