Comments on: Tee hee http://noncompositional.com/2006/10/tee-hee/ Wed, 04 Aug 2010 11:04:39 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: Russell http://noncompositional.com/2006/10/tee-hee/comment-page-1/#comment-4570 Russell Sun, 12 Nov 2006 06:09:51 +0000 http://noncompositional.com/2006/10/tee-hee/#comment-4570 <p>Haha, that is a good one.</p> <p>Yeah, these sorts of sound change mnemonics are indeed funny (and useful), but in this case the professor was embarrassed and rewrote the word (and besides which, exactly what haplology is wasn't the point of the discussion). But I've heard apocop, synchpe, phaeresis, and so on; some of those seem to be in that beast of a word. =)</p> <p>(and about various html tags, I guess I'm not sure what is and isn't allowed in the comments. I'll have to investigate...)</p> Haha, that is a good one.

Yeah, these sorts of sound change mnemonics are indeed funny (and useful), but in this case the professor was embarrassed and rewrote the word (and besides which, exactly what haplology is wasn’t the point of the discussion). But I’ve heard apocop, synchpe, phaeresis, and so on; some of those seem to be in that beast of a word. =)

(and about various html tags, I guess I’m not sure what is and isn’t allowed in the comments. I’ll have to investigate…)

]]> By: John Lawler http://noncompositional.com/2006/10/tee-hee/comment-page-1/#comment-4519 John Lawler Sat, 11 Nov 2006 16:16:52 +0000 http://noncompositional.com/2006/10/tee-hee/#comment-4519 <p>Ah, I see UL tags are forbidden. Sorry.</p> Ah, I see UL tags are forbidden. Sorry.

]]> By: John Lawler http://noncompositional.com/2006/10/tee-hee/comment-page-1/#comment-4518 John Lawler Sat, 11 Nov 2006 16:15:32 +0000 http://noncompositional.com/2006/10/tee-hee/#comment-4518 <p>That's one of the self-demonstrating linguistic mnemonics that one finds in <i>Studies Out In Left Field</i>, along with <i>rhotacirrmapocoppocopemethatesisepenethesis</i> and lots of others. Also good for explaining how things work to introductory classes. Are you sure it wasn't on purpose?</p> That’s one of the self-demonstrating linguistic mnemonics that one finds in Studies Out In Left Field, along with rhotacirrmapocoppocopemethatesisepenethesis and lots of others. Also good for explaining how things work to introductory classes. Are you sure it wasn’t on purpose?

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