[Mihalic] piano definition

[Robin Hide]

A few similar ones, but not these examples, appear in Dorgan Rushton (1983) 
Brush Up Your Pidgin. Willow Books, London.


At 03:06 PM 3/12/2004, you wrote:
>I was puzzled by these definitions for a long time. They are often quoted, 
>but they're so absurd that no one has ever used them in actual 
>speech.  I've even seen them quoted in Newsweek (US) not too many years 
>ago!  Recently, I was looking through a copy of Oh, What a Blow that 
>Phantom Gave Me! by Edmund Carpenter.  Carpenter seems to ascribe these 
>absurdisms to English, Pidgin and French Dictionary of Sports and Phrase 
>Book by Andréas Bálint, a book that I have not seen but that was roundly 
>criticized by Mühlhäusler.
>
>--Tom Slone

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