Re: Ungrammaticalization?

On Fri, 16 Jul 1999 18:40:13 CDT "J. Barefoot" <ataiyu@...>
writes:
>Wow. That's great. Where I go to school, it's always a big joke to rag
>on
>Canada, just because of this really dopey guy from Newfoundland. We
>don't
>really hate Canada; my best friend was born in Canada. How's that
>spelled?
>"C, eh? N, eh? D, eh?" Anyway... Oh, and there's this guy, well, to
>him
>anything not-quite-right, things where the rest of the student body
>would
>say "gay" (I think we've had that conversation before) is "commie." I
>don't
>know why I find this so amusing...
>Oh, I thought of another good one: "Well, it sure ain't Scottish..."
>as in
>those stupid bumper stickers: "If it's not Scottish, it's crap."
>That's
>[xrap].
>Didn't mean to offend anyone, Canadian, Scottish, Communist, or Gay.
>:-)
>
>Jennifer

Maybe i didn't make myself clear....my brother's class used the word
"Russian", "Carpathian", and "Communist" as *GOOD* adjectives (or filler
words), not bad ones.  Most of the words they used usually meant either
"good/cool" or "weird", although most of them could be used negatively
too, although that wasn't as common.


-Stephen (Steg)

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