Date:  Tue, 2 Jan 1996 14:38:39 -0500

From:  Benjamin Barrett <Gogaku[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]GNN.COM>

Subject: Re: New Joiner Here



>Date:     Tue, 2 Jan 1996 11:45:51 +0800

>From: Russ McClay <mcclay[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]PROQC.COM.TW>

>Sender:    American Dialect Society <ADS-L[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]UGA.CC.UGA.EDU>

[snip]

>Finally, living overseas makes keeping up on all the current expressions

>difficult. One that piqued my interest a year or two ago is "dis" /

> "dissed".

>[snip]



I can remember hearing "dis" as a short form of "disrespect" in high school,

about 12 years ago (Seattle). I think it ran epedemic, totally replacing

the then common verb "dog."



yoroshiku

Benjamin Barrett