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Re: Phonetics for "LUGNET" trademark and member IDs (was Re: member id's: simple numbers or something mo
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Thu, 29 Jul 1999 04:58:16 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.fun, Tom McDonald writes:
> In lugnet.off-topic.fun, Jeremy Sproat writes:
> > As for the fricative, that's simply the blue rubber gasket on your car's
> > turn signal reservoir, sealing the connection where the reservoir delivers
> > fluid into the fribillator.
> It's also an obscure Athapascan verb tense indicating the possible occurrence
> of a future event pending approval of an appropriate spirit being, as in
> "future fricative".
Avid "Northern Exposure" fans might recall that a bilabial fricative refers to
the state of mind one achieves while awaiting an answer from an Athapascan
spirit while consming bilibiatho (1) blowing in from Inuit grounds.
Cheers,
- jsproat
1. The soft, pink snow borne by the east winds in July, it falls at a steep
angle close to the ground on the leeward side of a mountain peak. Compare
with bililuminous, the glowing pink snow borne by hot winds from Washington
state's Hanford Nuclear Complex; and with bilinihongo, the prepackaged and
artificially-colored pink snow borne by freighter from Japan.
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