In a message dated 1/15/13 3:30:56 PM, [email protected] writes:
> Talk-sounds is stunningly ugly. > Kate Sullivan > I can't deny it. But the lines were an excerpt, and I claim that the initial use 'talk-sounds' justifies the intentional ugliness: it is introduced in an almost defiant way: the character Bren is dismissing the idea that spoken sounds are ever "words" in the sense of being members of a mind-independent category. E.g. my stalker utterance, "Foopgoom!"
