Language Police flunk teachers from Estonia to Arizona (UNCLASSIFIED)

[Mullins, Bill AMRDEC]

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> From: American Dialect Society [mailto:ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU] On
> Behalf Of Wilson Gray
> Sent: Tuesday, June 08, 2010 8:51 PM
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> Subject: Re: Language Police flunk teachers from Estonia to Arizona
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> "After all that we've done for those people! They're trying to destroy
> the great, unifying language of the former Soviet Emp... uh, Union!
> Why, until the Red Army conquered, uh, *civilized* these peoples, they
> were still swinging through the trees! (Of course, these two little
> countries had long formed part of the Tsarist Empire, but, like, WGAF
> about non-Sovieticized history.)

"WGAF" -- That's a new one on me.  Too bad that didn't make it into
Jesse Shiedlower's _F-Word_.

MORALE OF SCH'DY POLICE CRITICIZED
Times Union, The (Albany, NY) - Tuesday, February 7, 1989 p B4
Author: Marv Cermak Staff writer

"Councilman Albert P. Jurczynski held up a sweatshirt with the initials
WGAF on a sleeve at Monday's City Council meeting.

"If I said the initials stand for 'Who Gives a Darn' I'd be close,"
Jurczynski said."

Joel Redon, "Who Wrecked the Buffett?" _New York Native_; 2/2/87, Issue
198, p29, 2p

[refers to a gay bar in the East Village named WGAF]
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