>>>> <snip> >>> Though, IIRC, Lin Carter wrote an essay for =If= (anyone here >>> from the '60s still remember that mag?) decades ago in which he >>> asserted that fen indeed spoke fennish at one time. Ghod, that >>> takes me back with a vengeance (-; >>> >>> Snarkhunter >>> >> Remember If, thought Analog and Galaxy were my preferred poison >> in those days. Is Ghod like alcoholh? > > > Don't think so. Fen sorta came up with it duringh the 30s-40s time > frame. I think that would have made it Ghalaxy, BTW, if it had > been around (-; LinC reports someone with an advanced stereo > pointing all the speakers at NJ from NY & playingh the 1812 > Overture full bore, makingh residents think they were beingh attacked! > > There was a schismatic version of ghod-ism, but I don't recall the > particulars. . . . > > Snarkhunter > >> >> > I just re-read a minor work by David Gerrold called "Chess with a Dragon". In it, they had used "alcoholh" in "bheer", "vhodka", and other beverages to assure that there would be no side effects! Characters complained that alcoholh was not as good as alcohol...