End of ADS-L Digest - 26 Oct 1997 to 27 Oct 1997
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Subject: ADS-L Digest - 27 Oct 1997 to 28 Oct 1997
There are 69 messages totalling 2043 lines in this issue.

Topics of the day:

 1. redneck, nigger, good ole boy, kicker, etc. (8)
 2. Okay....new topic. (4)
 3. PC Dictionaries? (23)
 4. Language in the Judicial Process <http://ljp.la.utk.edu> (LJP)
 5. Dictionary Attacks
 6. Rat's -ss (3)
 7. rat's ass, nigger, redneck,... (2)
 8. Confederate flag, etc., etc. (2)
 9. "my bad" (2)
 10. PC Dictionaries? et al (2)
 11. What does the "n" word mean? (was PC dictionaries) (3)
 12. Teaching the History of the English Language (2)
 13. <No subject given> (2)
 14. RE>"my bad" (2)
 15. Definitions and Dictionaries
 16. GA flag (nothing to do with lang) (2)
 17. "Full Monty"
 18. Blessings and other southern euphemisms
 19. The "N" Word
 20. ads website address (3)
 21. Teaching the History of the English Language -Reply
 22. F word (was Re: redneck, nigger, good ole boy, kicker, etc.)
 23. Question re: _The Design Of Language_

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Date:  Tue, 28 Oct 1997 05:45:15 -0500
From:  "David A. Johns" <djohns[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]PEACHNET.CAMPUS.MCI.NET>
Subject: Re: redneck, nigger, good ole boy, kicker, etc.

At 11:27 PM 10/27/97 -0500, you wrote:
> On Mon, 27 Oct 1997, David A. Johns wrote:
>
> > It seems to me that the issue is the same one surrounding the
> > inclusion of the Confederate battle flag in the state flags of
South
> > Carolina, Georgia, and Mississippi, or the use of that flag or
the
> > Li'l Reb mascot for high schools throughout the South. In these
> > contexts, the non-rednecks or non-fans-of-the-Confederacy are a
> > captive membership.
>
> I think this issue has become doubly confused (surprise!). If I
read you
> right, you equate "non-rednecks" with "non-fans-of-the
Confederacy." Is
> that your meaning?
>
> And if you do that (please correct me if I am wrong), you probably
ALSO
> equate "rednecks" (whatever your definition is) with "fans-of-the
> Confederacy." Right?

No, not at all. I was considering both that term and the CSA symbols
as badges that should be worn voluntarily.


--
David Johns
Waycross College
Waycross, GA 31501