Vocabula link

[Enid Pearsons]

or "needs a rest."

Enid

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From: "Dennis R. Preston" <preston at PILOT.MSU.EDU>
To: <ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU>
Sent: Thursday, June 19, 2003 3:33 PM
Subject: Re: Vocabula link


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> >How bout "needs arrested"?
>
> dInIs (who adores mocking midlanders, you know, they guys who don't
> speak no dialects)
>
>
> >    I've been away for the past week and so have missed most of the
sizzling
> >comments about Vocabula. It does seem to me that a link to Vocabula is
still
> >appropriate on ADS-L, with a descriptive rather than an evaluative
comment.
> >Something like:
> >
> >  "Vocabula articles generally express the view that our language is in
> >dangerous decline and needs arrest."
> >
> >    Others, I'm sure, could improve on this, but I think we could come up
with
> >a description that would be accepted as fair by all concerned.
> >    - Allan Metcalf
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> Dennis R. Preston
> Professor of Linguistics
> Department of Linguistics & Germanic, Slavic,
>       Asian & African Languages
> Michigan State University
> East Lansing, MI 48824-1027
> e-mail: preston at msu.edu
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