End of ADS-L Digest - 28 Oct 1997 to 29 Oct 1997
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Subject: ADS-L Digest - 29 Oct 1997 to 30 Oct 1997
There are 35 messages totalling 973 lines in this issue.

Topics of the day:

 1. What does the "n" word mean? (was PC dictionaries) (7)
 2. Appalacian languages (3)
 3. "Hit" (was Appalacian [sic] languages) (3)
 4. Aks, ast (was "Hit")
 5. the word nigger
 6. ADS-L Digest - 28 Oct 1997 to 29 Oct 1997
 7. flying f.
 8. Okay....new topic.
 9. "race" (was PC Dictionaries?the N word? racism? race?) (2)
 10. dialect&literature
 11. Ast for Ask
 12. The "n" word and M-W Collegiate Dict (2)
 13. Reflexives in American dialects of English
 14. RE>Re: What does the "n" word mean? (was PC dictionaries)
 15. "my bad" (2)
 16. offensiveness of "fuck" (was: a bunch of other stuff)
 17. "Smell of" (4)
 18. ads at mmla in chicago
 19. dialect coaches

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Date:  Thu, 30 Oct 1997 00:32:22 -0500
From:  STEPHANIE LYNN KIRK <slkirk01[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]MOREHEAD-ST.EDU>
Subject: Re: What does the "n" word mean? (was PC dictionaries)

I don't understand how a white person can use the "N" word and it be
offensive and black people can use this word toward each other and it
not be offensive. Maybe someone can explain this phenomenon to me. I
personally do not use this word in any context, but this is something I
just don't understand.


Thank you
Stephanie Kirk