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The point is neither that there is something inherently slovenly in sl -, nor that the whole concept is the figment of our mass imagination, but that sl - has, by processes which remain unclear, somehow acquired at least three distinct phonesthemic connotations: the slippery, wintry connotation of ` sleds 'and ` sleet'; the quick, violent connotation of ` slayings 'and ` slashes'; as well as the unsavory connotation of ` sluggish sluts. '
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