Re: Self-Use of Ethnic Insults (was: Re: Ebonic Christmas )
| From: | BP Jonsson <bpj@...> |
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| Date: | Saturday, January 15, 2000, 14:48 |
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At 16:01 -0600 13.1.2000, Ed Heil wrote:
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>I seem to remember a story called "All You Zombies" by Heinlein about
>time travel in which similar changes had occurred, and a traveller
>from the future was surprised to hear someone use the term "service
>station" in polite company, until he remembered that it *used* to
>refer to a place where you could buy gasoline...
What did it mean in the "future"?
/BP
B.Philip Jonsson <mailto: bpj@...> <mailto: melroch@...>
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