Date:  Tue, 8 Feb 1994 12:57:00 CST

From:  "Donald M. Lance" <ENGDL[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]MIZZOU1.BITNET>

Subject: Re: She's All



In student reports in class, "quotative like" seems to be as common in the

speech of males as the speech of females. And I've heard "I'm all..." and

"I'm..." in the speech of both sexes, including the speech of a male

student who transferred to Missouri from Arizona State (re Rudy Troike's

reference to males and females at U of AZ).



A colleague at the U of Utah tells me that one of his students said both her

husband and her son use 'nimrod' for geek or nerd, a 35-year span. She

speculated that Natty Bumpo was a nimrod.

                       DMLance