Date:  Wed, 8 Jan 1997 14:11:29 -0600
From:  Greg Pulliam <gpulliam[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]CHARLIE.CNS.IIT.EDU>
Subject: Re: Popular Ebonics

>Newsweek, Jan. 13th, has two pieces in the very end of the magazine.
>There is also a blurb in the "Conventional Wisdom Watch" that appears on
>page six:
>    Ebonics <-> Goofy debate's silver lining: dissing
>    "black English" no longer taboo.
>
>So much for the articles on pp. 78-80.
>
>Bill King
>U. of Arizona

Is Newsweek being sarcastic here? Using "dissing" in this blurb? If not,
I'm completely stunned.

Gregory J. Pulliam
Illinois Institute of Technology
Lewis Department of Humanities
Chicago, IL  60616
gpulliam[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]charlie.cns.iit.edu