End of ADS-L Digest - 1 Nov 1994 to 2 Nov 1994

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There are 14 messages totalling 386 lines in this issue.



Topics of the day:



 1. Judy's Carbon Copy

 2. offending idioms (3)

 3. All Souls' Day/All Saints' Day (3)

 4. PC in the NY Times

 5. political correctness at ncte

 6. American Culture and All Saints & All Souls Days

 7. who is african american (2)

 8. Hallowe'en greetings?

 9. new york city and upstate



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Date:  Wed, 2 Nov 1994 23:03:56 EST

From:  Larry Horn <LHORN[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]YALEVM.CIS.YALE.EDU>

Subject: Re: Judy's Carbon Copy



The cc in e-mailers is indeed a direct descendant of the initialism for

'carbon copy', although I wonder whether it (and indeed the cc at the bottom

of letters) hasn't been reanalyzed by many (especially of the post-carbon

generations) as being a plural of 'copy', as in mss. for 'manuscripts', pp for

'pages', ff., etc. I'll ask my Words & Meaning class and see what they

guess. (There must be some transparency for some writers, since one

occasionally sees 'xc' for 'xerox copy' instead.)



--Larry