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There are 5 messages totalling 114 lines in this issue.



Topics of the day:



 1. Monkey Wards and Kame-apart -Reply (2)

 2. Risin' = boil (n.)

 3. subscribe

 4. K-Marche



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Date:  Fri, 23 Feb 1996 03:55:50 -0500

From:  "M. Lynne Murphy" <104LYN[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]MUSE.ARTS.WITS.AC.ZA>

Subject: Re: Monkey Wards and Kame-apart -Reply



> I have seen a couple of comments about Target as being "a high-class place

> to shop." I considered these comments to be litotes, or at least

> ironic. The Target stores here are the same as K-mart, so the

> frenchification of the name has always been taken to be humorous around

> here. The high school kids who can't find sloppy enough clothes while

> "thrifting", i.e. haunting thrift shops, buy cheap baggy things at

> Target or K-Mart. Is Target REALLY tonier than K-Mart in other regions?



the use of the french pronunciation is definitely ironic, but i do

think target is slightly nicer than k-mart. i think this impression

comes from the fact that target stores (being part of a newer chain,

as far as i know) are usually in newer buildings in more recently

developed parts of town. and, being newer, their store fixtures,

shopping carts, etc. are also newer, and so seem nicer. i think

these facts combined make me more likely to look for clothes at

target than at k-mart.



thriftily,

lynne



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Department of Linguistics            phone: 27(11)716-2340

University of the Witwatersrand          fax: 27(11)716-8030

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