GRGR(6): Reg Le Froyd

[Henry M]

Ding, ding, Murthy. 100% agree. When I see Reg le, I also see Regle, 
as someone else posted, but my context is Renoir's La Regle du Jeu.

> From:          Murthy Yenamandra <yenamand at cs.umn.edu>
> Subject:       Re: GRGR(6): Reg Le Froyd
> To:            pynchon-l at waste.org (pynchon-l)
> Date:          Mon, 16 Dec 1996 13:23:20 -0600 (CST)

> Joe Varo writes:
> > Had TRP written "froid", then a reader who knows some french would most
> > likely hear "frwa" rather than "freud".  By changing the -i- to a -y- he
> > forces you to see and hear "freud"
> > 
> > Also, I think that one can play with the french a bit more:  instead of
> > "Reg Le Froyd" you could have "regle fro[i/y]d", which (depending on
> > accents aigu or grave) could mean something like "I rule cold" or "cold
> > rule[r]".
> 
> If you pronounce it with a hard 'g', you can also hear "Regular Freud",
> which I've always thought was the direct joke. Don't remember if someone
> has mentioned it already.
> 
> Murthy
> 
> -- 
> Murthy Yenamandra, Dept of CompSci, U of Minnesota. mailto:yenamand at cs.umn.edu
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>      That's how the light gets in" - Leonard Cohen
> 
> 

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