Date: Thu, 13 Jul 1995 14:20:43 -0800
From: "Alan S. Kaye" AKAYE[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]CCVAX.FULLERTON.EDU
Subject: Re: oj trial
RE: OJ Trial
Folks, come on, let's get serious. I am not an expert in AAVE; however,
I would like to see the "expert" identify correctly out of 100 tape recordings
of, say, 100 different people born and raised in a southern state, e.g.,
chosen at random, and identify blacks from non-blacks. My guess is that
this is next to impossible. Then, too, we can have whites who sound black
(phoneticians, e.g.) and blacks who sound white. So where does it all end,
and what is the point of such non-scientific judgements. So I must say
that Johnny Cochran's point seems to me to be a good one.
Alan Kaye
akaye[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]fullerton.edu
Linguistics, CSU, Fullerton