Re: TECH: Subject-chomping (WAS: Pronouns & sexual^H^H^H
| From: | Paul Kershaw <ptkershaw@...> |
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| Date: | Thursday, February 26, 2009, 3:27 |
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----- Original Message ----
> From: Mark J. Reed <markjreed@...>
> To: CONLANG@listserv.brown.edu
> Sent: Wednesday, February 25, 2009 9:51:50 PM
> Subject: Re: TECH: Subject-chomping (WAS: Pronouns & sexual^H^H^H
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> Poo-slinging subhumans?? Huh?
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> I know "yahoo" as (1) an exclamation of extreme delight, and (2) slang
> for an unintelligent/unsophisticated person. If the latter comes from
> some term for a nonhuman primate, I'm wholly unfamiliar with that
> use...
Please see: Gulliver's Travels, Book 4, by Jonathan Swift. :) Gulliver travels to the
land of the Houyhnhnms, where horses (the Houyhnhnms) are civilized and humans
(the Yahoos) behave much like any other primate.
Although I reckon Yahoo! really took its name from your (1).
-- Paul
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