Re: Bostonites. *ZAP*
| From: | John Fisher <john@...> |
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| Date: | Sunday, March 28, 1999, 2:58 |
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In message <3.0.6.32.19990326110820.007b1370@glad>, Brian Betty
<bbetty@...> writes
>So when people repeatedly give me linguistics 101 to correct me for
>something I didn't say, that's not treating me like an idiot or a newbie or
>a linguistic illiterate?
An irrelevant aside - what does "Linguistics 101" mean? I've often seen
people say "X 101" to mean "the rudiments of X", but I don't understand
the derivation.
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