| Subject: | Re: [NABOKV-L] DN re:: second-rate writers]] |
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| Date: | Mon, 29 Jan 2007 11:28:19 -0500 |
| From: | John A Rea <j.rea2@insightbb.com> |
| Reply-To: | j.rea2@insightbb.com |
| To: | Vladimir Nabokov Forum <NABOKV-L@LISTSERV.UCSB.EDU> |
| References: | <45BDF853.3090606@utk.edu> |
Clearly not "American" (and unintelligible to most "unwashed" Americans) for whom the pbrase is, "King Queen, Jack" (and no "dames" please}. John (addressed by linguists, his late first wife and his ` maternal grandfather as,"Jack") p. s. I'll make a side bet that this doesn't get past our assiduous censors, even though I've slyly attached it to Dmitri's letter, and although our non-American friends need to know that the term "Knave" is a non-American usage (I don't use the term here "un-American" Jack EDNote: Au contraire! (even without the challenge!)
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