Received: by alpheratz.cpm.aca.mmu.ac.uk id FAA14514 (8.6.9/5.3[ref pg@gmsl.co.uk] for cpm.aca.mmu.ac.uk from fmb-majordomo@mmu.ac.uk); Mon, 14 May 2001 05:05:04 +0100 X-Originating-IP: [209.240.220.199] From: "Scott Chase" <ecphoric@hotmail.com> To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk Subject: RE: Information Date: Mon, 14 May 2001 00:01:03 -0400 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed Message-ID: <F18MCIqtQvAauNjVuMh00005be3@hotmail.com> X-OriginalArrivalTime: 14 May 2001 04:01:03.0944 (UTC) FILETIME=[7EBD3480:01C0DC2A] Sender: fmb-majordomo@mmu.ac.uk Precedence: bulk Reply-To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk
>From: <joedees@bellsouth.net>
>Reply-To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk
>To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk
>Subject: RE: Information
>Date: Sun, 13 May 2001 15:29:33 -0500
>
>On 13 May 2001, at 11:48, Scott Chase wrote:
>
> >
> >
> >
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> > >From: "Richard Brodie" <richard@brodietech.com>
> > >Reply-To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk
> > >To: <memetics@mmu.ac.uk>
> > >Subject: RE: Information
> > >Date: Sun, 13 May 2001 00:02:53 -0700
> > >
> > >Wade wrote:
> > >
> > ><<Look, I totally agree that _anything_ that _anyone_ has _ever_ said
> > >at _any_ time is _fiction_- and thus opinion is a great deal of it,
> > >and that the best thing that anyone could ever say would also be open
> > >to opinion, but the _best way to use a word_ ain't, and never was, a
> > >matter of _opinion_. It has always and shall ever more remain, a
> > >matter of consensus.>>
> > >
> > >What's the consensus on the use of the word "ain't"?
> > >
> > It's a highly regarded word here in the South. Y'all is also a staple
> > word as in "Hey y'all, we ain't got no more beer." Consensus has it
> > that these words are here to stay. Ivy leaguers might have a different
> > take on whether these words belong in a person's vocabulary (or
> > idiolect?), but they ain't gonna purge us of the sacred slang.
> >
>It would thouroughly discombobulate southerners to even so much
>as contemplate losing their special jargon; they'd have conniption
>fits if such attempts were made.
>
>
Not as bad a conniption fit the apoplectic paleoanthropologists forced to
review a dog chewed Malibu Barbie doll head would suffer. Those sorts of
"specimens" are a dime a dozen around clothes lines here in the heart of the
South. My guess would be that the bite marks match well with those of your
typical pit bull terrier.
[add Hee Haw theme here]
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