End of ADS-L Digest - 30 Apr 1996 to 1 May 1996

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Topics of the day:



 1. ADS-L Digest - 30 Apr 1996 to 1 May 1996 (3)

 2. Duh! (2)



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Date:  Thu, 2 May 1996 00:07:32 -0400

From:  ALICE FABER <faber[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]HASKINS.YALE.EDU>

Subject: Re: ADS-L Digest - 30 Apr 1996 to 1 May 1996



Michael Montgomery wrote:



| Dear Friends,

|

| A candid statement from a final exam I have just read:

|

| "Out of all the different dialects, Standard English is the one that is

| most wildly used."

    ^^^^^^

| Is this why some of us don't communicate with our students as well as we'd

| like?



Isn't this evidence of the intrusive /l/ we were talking about before we got

sidetracked by May( )day, or at least some kind of linguistic insecurity

engendered thereby?



| A gentle end of the semester to all,



Indeed.



Alice Faber