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Re: Bostonites. *ZAP*

From:John Fisher <john@...>
Date:Sunday, March 28, 1999, 2:58
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. -- John Fisher john@drummond.demon.co.uk johnf@epcc.ed.ac.uk Elet Anta website: http://www.drummond.demon.co.uk/anta/ Drummond ro cleshfan merec; fanye litoc, inye litoc