Date:  Tue, 7 Mar 1995 23:14:51 EST

From:  Dean <DMELLOW[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]UNIVSCVM.BITNET>

Subject: Re: loose meat and vegans



No, I don't think so.

In my dialect, we say - not in a million years.

Certain things about dialects are interesting. Not this though.

JDM



On Tue, 07 Mar 95 21:12:03 EST Janet M. Fuller said:

>Doncha wish you was a dialectologist? -jmf

>

>----------------------------Original message----------------------------

>In reference to the term "meat skin" I don't know what it means in the song

>about Sal, but one of my favorite examples of namecalling appeared in one of

>Zora Neale Hurston's works (I believe *Mules and Men*). One character called

>another "a li'l narrer [narrow] contracted piece of meatskin." I took the

>description to refer to a worthless skinny woman. I've come across meatskin in

>some of Hurston's other works and it seems to imply that the person is waste of

>skin.

>

>BBHudson[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]grove.iup.edu.