Phonetics

“I also had the privilege of a three-year running debate with George L. Trager while he was here. (George and I picked on each other because we both grew up in Bloomfieldian linguistics, and we couldn’t find anyone else here who understood that a quadrilabial trill is produced by the simultaneous emission of a bronx cheer and an emphatic fart.)”

from http://venus.soci.niu.edu/~archives/TOMPAINE/oct97/0038.html

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