Date:  Thu, 27 Apr 1995 19:39:39 -0500

From:  Natalie Maynor <maynor[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]RA.MSSTATE.EDU>

Subject: Re: Bounced Mail



>>Tim, what does the Hill Street Blues cop's Jewishness have to do with his use

>>of euphemistic epithets?

>

> Natalie, Nothing in particular -- just like his height, the degree

> of his articulateness, his eating habits, his profession, and his

> grunting. I was drawing on my mental image of the character to

> identify him to readers. His ethnicity stands out as part of his

> identity. Why do you ask?



I didn't. Somebody else did. I was simply forwarding mail that bounced

to me as listowner.

  --Natalie (maynor[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]ra.msstate.edu)