Vladimir Nabokov

NABOKV-L post 0009335, Sat, 14 Feb 2004 09:28:56 -0800

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Fw: Query: cuneiform, cuneal, cuneate
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From: "Jansy Berndt de Souza Mello" <jansy@brturbo.com>
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> Hello, Brian and List
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> It seems VN used words such as cucular and variations on cucumber in
Ada.
> I´ve been browsing in Ada and shall continue to check for interesting
> queries. You could check former postings, too .
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> It would be so nice if we had VN´s works digitalized so that we could use
> modern resources to find words and similar sounding world-plays. It would
> help in our quotations and bibliographic references, too.
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> ( I´ve recently discovered that cucular is a reference to a monk´s
> conic-shaped head cover ).
>
> Jansy
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> From: "D. Barton Johnson" <chtodel@cox.net>
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> Sent: Friday, February 13, 2004 10:08 PM
> Subject: Query: cuneiform, cuneal, cuneate
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> > EDNOTE. Not in ADA anyway.
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> > From: "Brian Howell" <pakmshlter@yahoo.com>
> > To: "Vladimir Nabokov Forum" <NABOKV-L@LISTSERV.UCSB.EDU>
> > Sent: Friday, February 13, 2004 4:29 PM
> > Subject: Re: Fw: Fw: 'throat pit' in The Gift and Nabokov's English word
> > choices/cuneiform
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> > > Jansy's post makes me wonder if N ever used the word
> > > 'cuneiform'/'cuneal' or even 'cuneate', some favourite
> > > words of mine.
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> > > Brian Howell
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