[lit-ideas] Re: the morphing of language...

  • From: JimKandJulieB@xxxxxxx
  • To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Mon, 13 Feb 2006 06:22:10 EST

Thank God someone else reacted the way I did!
 
(trying to find little black book of vernacular.....)
 
Julie Krueger

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What are "fender skirts"? What are "curb feelers"? 
 
Carol,
a bit out of touch with every era
 
 
 
 

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Subject: [lit-ideas] the morphing of  language...


<<A term I haven't heard in a long time and  thinking about  "fender skirts" 
started me thinking about other words that quietly disappear  from our 
language with hardly a notice.   
 
Like "curb  feelers" 


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