NP Proposition 227 (was Re: NP Ebonics)

[davemarc]

From: Paul Mackin <paul.mackin at verizon.net>


> On Mon, 2003-03-17 at 14:55, davemarc wrote:
>
> >  And I've got to say that Doug's quotations from
> > Pynchon's books were very impressive.  So many of his posts have
resembled
> > propagandizing and proselytizing (I think of the Pynchon quoting as
> > Pynchon-thumping) that I had taken his quotation-finding skills for
granted
> > until this recent round of dialect-related quotations, which blew me
away.
>
> why for heaven's sake.Please explain.
>
Well, there I was, pretty excited to have found my own set of
dialect-related Pynchon quotations.  Then Doug came up with a bunch of
others that I would never have thought of on my own.  I thought that was
just peachy.  Unfortunately, it didn't lead to a wonderful Pynchon-related
exchange.  Instead, there were the usual insults and put-downs.  I thought
that just sucked.

d.

PS:  And now I see Doug just found another one, "it's a linguistic
wilderness here, and he's afraid."  I can't help it--I'm impressed again!