re Re: re Re: re Re: re Re: SLSL language

[Paul Mackin]

On Sun, 2003-03-16 at 21:23, pynchonoid wrote:
> Barbara:
> >Ain't it the truth! [...]
> 
> Right, in my experience once a person gets past the
> simple ignorance of what AAVE (aka Ebonics) actually
> is (replacing the distorted portrayals that have been
> too common in the media), the fears and prejudices
> generally fade away.

Better to accept the distorted portrayals that come from Doug.
The alt truth website.
 
>   Malign sounds like Slothrop 
> with his white ass sticking out up above the toilet
> and terrified of those big bad black boys in the
> bathroom; not being able to understand what they say
> just compounds the rape anxiety. 

The meaning was perfectly clear .We gonna get yo white ass. Dimwit Doug
has no feel, none at all, for how human communication works.

>  (Extending the
> comparison, Malign usually manages to get himself out
> of the embarrassing predicaments he creates for
> himself here on Pynchon-L by burrowing ever deeper
> down the toilet and kicking shit in his wake.)

Whereas you're in free fall down the rabbit hole into your own world of
make believe.
.


> 
> Respecting the language that people grow up learning
> to speak also requires a certain level of empathy for
> others  -- a quality distinctly absent from the online
> persona that Malign has created in this forum.  

Doug always projects bad feelings about himself  on someone else. He's
got the entire p-list to choose from. Unless someone will step forward
and be his friend. Doug he need to bond with someone sides Barbara.


P.