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- From: zwicky@Csli.Stanford.EDU (Arnold Zwicky)
- Subject: Re: correction to end-of-year reading
- Message-ID: <1993Jan1.205856.19989@Csli.Stanford.EDU>
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- Summary: yes, caudwell
- Keywords: mystery writers
- Organization: lsa, outil, stanford, osu,...
- References: <76016@apple.apple.COM> <1992Dec31.182613.17560@Csli.Stanford.EDU> <C06K5p.LLq@panix.com>
- Date: Fri, 1 Jan 1993 20:58:56 GMT
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- corrections upon corrections. having made the typo, i then
- repeated it. cauDwell, as mara says.
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- mara says her mother read two of the books without noticing
- that no hints were given as to hilary tamar's sex. the question is:
- what mental picture did mara's mother have of hilary tamar?
-
- i can't judge caudwell's knowledge of law (she *is* a lawyer,
- however) or cricket or various of the other domains on which
- her characters discourse in such detail, but she seems sound on
- textual analysis and linguistics. from _the shortest way to hades_:
-
- `Oh,' said Julia again, `you must be Leonidas.' She pronounced
- the name with the accent on the penultimate syllable, and the `d'
- as a voiced fricative, like the last phoneme in soothe.
-
- this is just right as a description of the pronunciation in modern
- greek...
-
- arnold (impressed to find a lawyer who knows about fricatives
- and neat stuff like that)
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