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From: "Jansy Berndt de Souza Mello" <jansy@aetern.us>
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> Dear List and Tom,
>
> What ( or whence ) is a Haroosh, asked our Ed, while in agreement with
your
> HO. I´m also intrigued by IMHO. Could you be so kind as to enlighten me?
>
> I´ve been recently leafing through Ambrose Bierce´s "The enlarged
Devil´s
> Dictionary" ( begun in 1869 and developed during thirty years, or more )
> where I found a definition of " epigram" that has a link with the
"nymphet"
> idea ( I agree with your observation that this word gives " a curious
> masculine effect at first sight" ).
>
> Bierce quotes a certain "learned and ingenious Dr Jamrach Holobom" :
> " There are three sexes; males, females and girls ".
> ( We must remember, though, that his observation about the "three sexes"
> is completely outdated by our modern counts, since this journalist, born
> in 1842, died in 1913... Besides, the new expression "nymphet" is not
> applicable to every girl)
> Jansy
>
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> From: "D. Barton Johnson" <chtodel@cox.net>
> To: <NABOKV-L@LISTSERV.UCSB.EDU>
> Sent: Saturday, April 03, 2004 2:18 PM
> Subject: Fw: Fw: Maurice Couturier re Plagiarism & LOLITA
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> > From: <tom@discobolus.co.za>
> > .
> > >
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> > > Dear Don and List...
> > >
> > > The Great Plagiarism Haroosh is such a waste of breath and ink, IMHO.
> > > Changing the focus back to Humbert's tangle of thorns, perhaps some of
> us
> > > know why he, as a Francophone, did not come up with "nymphette."
Instead
> > he
> > > spells it the American way, on the model of "cigaret," which gives a
> > > curiously masculine effect at first sight.
> > >
> > > Regards,
> > >
> > > Tom (Rymour)
> > ----------------------------------------
> > EDNOTE. I couldn't agree more your HO, but what (and whence) is a
HAROOSH?
> >
> >
>
From: "Jansy Berndt de Souza Mello" <jansy@aetern.us>
>
> ----------------- Message requiring your approval (50
lines) ------------------
> Dear List and Tom,
>
> What ( or whence ) is a Haroosh, asked our Ed, while in agreement with
your
> HO. I´m also intrigued by IMHO. Could you be so kind as to enlighten me?
>
> I´ve been recently leafing through Ambrose Bierce´s "The enlarged
Devil´s
> Dictionary" ( begun in 1869 and developed during thirty years, or more )
> where I found a definition of " epigram" that has a link with the
"nymphet"
> idea ( I agree with your observation that this word gives " a curious
> masculine effect at first sight" ).
>
> Bierce quotes a certain "learned and ingenious Dr Jamrach Holobom" :
> " There are three sexes; males, females and girls ".
> ( We must remember, though, that his observation about the "three sexes"
> is completely outdated by our modern counts, since this journalist, born
> in 1842, died in 1913... Besides, the new expression "nymphet" is not
> applicable to every girl)
> Jansy
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "D. Barton Johnson" <chtodel@cox.net>
> To: <NABOKV-L@LISTSERV.UCSB.EDU>
> Sent: Saturday, April 03, 2004 2:18 PM
> Subject: Fw: Fw: Maurice Couturier re Plagiarism & LOLITA
>
>
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: <tom@discobolus.co.za>
> > .
> > >
> > > ----------------- Message requiring your approval (11
> > lines) ------------------
> > > Dear Don and List...
> > >
> > > The Great Plagiarism Haroosh is such a waste of breath and ink, IMHO.
> > > Changing the focus back to Humbert's tangle of thorns, perhaps some of
> us
> > > know why he, as a Francophone, did not come up with "nymphette."
Instead
> > he
> > > spells it the American way, on the model of "cigaret," which gives a
> > > curiously masculine effect at first sight.
> > >
> > > Regards,
> > >
> > > Tom (Rymour)
> > ----------------------------------------
> > EDNOTE. I couldn't agree more your HO, but what (and whence) is a
HAROOSH?
> >
> >
>