End of ADS-L Digest - 27 Oct 1997 to 28 Oct 1997
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Subject: ADS-L Digest - 28 Oct 1997 to 29 Oct 1997
There are 29 messages totalling 723 lines in this issue.

Topics of the day:

 1. "my bad" (2)
 2. ADS-L Digest - 27 Oct 1997 to 28 Oct 1997 (4)
 3. Pop Goes the Weasel
 4. Rat F---
 5. Bologna tra-la-las & chicken-wire floats (3)
 6. dialect coaches
 7. Bologna tra-la-las & chicken-wire floats -Reply
 8. haywire rockabilly
 9. Teaching the History of the English Language
 10. What does the "n" word mean? (was PC dictionaries)
 11. PC Dictionaries?
 12. flying f. (2)
 13. the word nigger
 14. Indian Giver (2)
 15. yid
 16. The "N" Word
 17. Appalacian languages (3)
 18. PC Dictionaries?the N word? racism? race?
 19. "Hit" (was Appalacian [sic] languages)

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Date:  Wed, 29 Oct 1997 06:14:43 -0500
From:  Peggy Smith <dj611[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]CLEVELAND.FREENET.EDU>
Subject: Re: "my bad"

The expression "my bad" left the basketball court and entered the mainstream
with the movie "Clueless" of a few years ago. It has become a teenage
cult movie, and my students can recite whole sections of the screenplay,
including expressions like "my bad", "whatEVER" and others. These are
the kids who have never seen a basketball game, if you can imagine that.

Peggy Smith