Date:    Mon, 18 May 1998 13:25:30 -0400
<br>From:    Larry Horn <laurence.horn[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]YALE.EDU>
<br>Subject: Re: nativisms
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<br>At 4:34 PM -0400 5/15/98, Beverly Flanigan wrote:
<br>>What does this refer to???
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<br>>At 12:00 PM 5/15/98 -0500, you wrote:
<br>>>Redneckisms in upstate NY?
<br>>>
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<br>I'm not sure.  The "you" above is not me; I'd written a post concerning a
<br>nativism in upstate N.Y. (the town of Chili, pronounced to rhyme with jai
<br>alai or High-Life-without-the-f, as I described it in a subsequent post
<br>after being tweaked for my N.E.-centric reference to jai alai), and someone
<br>else posted the response you cite, maybe assuming for some reason that any
<br>"nativism" is ipso facto a "redneckism"--rather than (as we've been using
<br>the term) simply denoting the domestication of a foreign word or name.  Or
<br>maybe it's a joke we're not getting.
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<br>larry
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