End of ADS-L Digest - 13 Jun 1995 to 14 Jun 1995

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There are 11 messages totalling 255 lines in this issue.



Topics of the day:



 1. Teen Slang Terms (Gank and Gaffle) (3)

 2. AAVE discourse

 3. new phrase

 4. disconnect (3)

 5. Cutler book

 6. Teen Slang Terms (Gank and Gaffle) -Reply

 7. Fwd: Re(2): Yankee?



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Date:  Wed, 14 Jun 1995 22:17:33 -0700

From:  Mary Bucholtz <bucholtz[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]GARNET.BERKELEY.EDU>

Subject: Re: Teen Slang Terms (Gank and Gaffle)



My students (mostly Southern California transplants) have been reporting

"gank" on slang surveys for 4 years. Most of them have no idea where it

comes from but a few have suggested, rightly, I think, that it derives

from "gangster/a" (those aren't gender markings, just dialect variation).



Mary Bucholtz



Department of Linguistics

University of California, Berkeley

bucholtz[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]garnet.berkeley.edu