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Re: CHAT: various infotaining natlang tidbits

From:Fior Avant <chiph@...>
Date:Wednesday, June 14, 2000, 4:58
On Wed, 14 Jun 2000 00:27:23 -0400  Roger Mills <romilly@...> wrote:
> Chiph wrote: > +AD4APg- +AD4- (Pickaninny is a +AF8-US+AF8- 'slave' word.) > +AD4- > +AD4- Really? I never saw this word in any book or film...+AD4APg- > > Well, that's progress and the younger generation for you+ACE- People of > my parents' generation (now in their 90s or more) used it with impunity. > I've not heard it in years either, except from avowed racists or Southern > Ladies who think it's +AF8-cute+AF8- (and who +AF8-still+AF8- think +ACI-nigra+ACI- is a polite > form).
Thank you mate. "The End is not yet. Or is it..."