[Spambayes] Re: RE: [Spambayes-checkins] website docs.ht,1.3,1.4

Tim Stone - Four Stones Expressions tim@fourstonesExpressions.com
Tue Nov 12 00:49:52 2002


11/11/2002 6:40:44 PM, Tim Peters <tim.one@comcast.net> wrote:

>> ! <dt>hapax, hapax legomenon <dd>a word or form occuring only once in a
>> ! document or corpus. (plural is hapax legomena)
>>   </dl>
>
>Ya, but even I'm not that anal -- I usually say hapaxes.  hapaxora would be
>a hoot too <wink>.

Hapax driven, alternate defn: Typical mode of intra-gender communication, as 
in:

"Husband: Beer"
"Wife: No"
"Husband: Now"
"Wife: NOT!!!"
"Husband: Please?"
"Wife: Dreamer"
"Husband: <expletive>"
"Wife: Idiot"
"Husband: What?"
"Wife: LISTEN!"

- TimS

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