End of ADS-L Digest - 5 Dec 1995 to 6 Dec 1995

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There are 44 messages totalling 1414 lines in this issue.



Topics of the day:



 1. pop and soda

 2. NEW COKE (2)

 3. Language and Intelligence (7)

 4. root beer preferences

 5. Time clock (5)

 6. name's the same (4)

 7. [fle:g] (6)

 8. Vocabulary & IQ (2)

 9. linguistic thinking

 10. receipt -Reply

 11. Re[2]: name's the same

 12. Perspective...(?) (3)

 13. can/can't (3)

 14. Labov (fwd) (4)

 15. vowel laxing

 16. sneakers -Reply

 17. Pepsi Jingle



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Date:  Thu, 7 Dec 1995 00:01:19 -0500

From:  SETH SKLAREY <crissiet[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]IPOF.FLA.NET>

Subject: Re: pop and soda



>Rudy Troike said:

>

>>    Virginia Clark's report on the demise of "tonic" is a devastating

>>blow (especially when coupled with the loss of "Chesterfield") to the

>>linguistic lore of all our American English courses.



Larry Horn wrote:



>  I grew up drinking "soda", and was nonplussed when I first encountered "pop"

>and "soda pop" after leaving New York/Long Island for Raaach'st'r.

>  Would generic coke speakers ask for a Coke coke when they want to be

>specific about what kind of coke they want?



This discussion brought to mind a recreational drug using New England law

student,

probably a Yale student from Atlanta (where Co-cola was invented) who was so

cold he stopped reading Lord Coke long enough to sip a Coke, snort some coke

and shovel some coke into the boiler. Was he a dope? Did he drink a dope,

snort dope? Did he give himself a tonic? Is English a great language or what?