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Re: Re: Jagwar or Jag-you-are

To: sabbott@NMSU.Edu
Subject: Re: Re: Jagwar or Jag-you-are
From: Roland Dudley <cobra@cdc.hp.com>
Date: Tue, 3 Nov 92 16:05:18 pst
> From: sabbott@NMSU.Edu
> Date: Tue, 3 Nov 92 16:20:03 MST
> To: british-cars@autox.team.net
> Subject:  Re: Jagwar or Jag-you-are
> 
> > Here's the definitive pronunciation key:
> >
> > British English:    jag' yoo wa"r
> > American English:   jag' wa"r
> > E. E. Milne:                jag' yoo la"r           
> 
> yes, also observe the french *je suis*
> can be mis-pronounced *geez you is* which
> is an existential reference to the feeling
> one gets while driving a sports car with the
> top down and all the annoying bugs ironed out.
> An ironic existential reference to their neighbors,
> the italians and the english, who are the great 
> sports car masters and is also proof of jung's
> theory of the collective unconsciousness.

Which demonstrates just how meaningless this whole 
discussion has become.


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