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Original Usenet message from alt.ascii-art, 26 Jul 1994.
Re: Meriday's ASCII Re: WoSaT origami - comments

Re: Meriday's ASCII Re: WoSaT origami - comments

In <199...@midway.uchicago.edu> Rudrik Greyshadow
 <gre...@uchicago.edu> writes:
>
>> <*splutter*>
>   ^^^^^^^^^^  
> What does it mean to splutter?  
> This word is not in the dictionary (an growing up it meant to cough
> mike out of your nose).
>

I won't even ask what Mike was doing *in* your nose in the first place. 
 
As for "splutter," it's as obvious a combinatorial as "decimate," 
what the Rev. C. L. Dodgson would have referred to as a "portmanteau word."
 
"Split" and "utter" combine to reference the classic "apical interlabial
unvoiced split fricative," or "Bronx Raspberry."    (See what attempting
an undergrad major in linguistics can do for your B.S. vocabulary?)

I'm sure there is a linguistics-jargon term for defining whether the 
observed utterance occurs with or without full-range saliva spray, 
but you get the idea.

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Subject: Re: Meriday's ASCII Re: WoSaT origami - comments
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