displaced relative clause

[Jonathan Lighter]

Me too, but I'm a hypereducated pointyhead.

JL

On Sun, Jul 1, 2012 at 4:45 PM, Michael Newman
<michael.newman at qc.cuny.edu>wrote:

> ---------------------- Information from the mail header
> -----------------------
> Sender:       American Dialect Society <ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU>
> Poster:       Michael Newman <michael.newman at QC.CUNY.EDU>
> Subject:      Re: displaced relative clause
>
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> Ok, two of you find it ok. Maybe I'm over analyzing, but I think I'd say
> it with the relative right after the modified N.
>
>
>
>
> Michael Newman
> Associate Professor of Linguistics
> Queens College/CUNY
> michael.newman at qc.cuny.edu
>
>
>
> On Jul 1, 2012, at 10:15 PM, Jonathan Lighter wrote:
>
> > ---------------------- Information from the mail header
> -----------------------
> > Sender:       American Dialect Society <ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU>
> > Poster:       Jonathan Lighter <wuxxmupp2000 at GMAIL.COM>
> > Subject:      Re: displaced relative clause
> >
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> >
> > Sounds normal to me too.
> >
> > JL
> >
> > On Sun, Jul 1, 2012 at 3:57 PM, Wilson Gray <hwgray at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >> ---------------------- Information from the mail header
> >> -----------------------
> >> Sender:       American Dialect Society <ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU>
> >> Poster:       Wilson Gray <hwgray at GMAIL.COM>
> >> Subject:      Re: displaced relative clause
> >>
> >>
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> >>
> >> On Sun, Jul 1, 2012 at 12:58 PM, Michael Newman
> >> <michael.newman at qc.cuny.edu> wrote:
> >>> African American English
> >>
> >> That's true. I'm not even sure what it is that you find abnormal about
> >> that string.
> >>
> >> OTOH, I'd write
> >>
> >> "African-American"
> >>
> >> or, simply,
> >>
> >> "BE."
> >>
> >> BTW, y'all know that there's a Facebook SIG with the name,
> >>
> >> "Don't Call Me 'African-American'!"?
> >>
> >> --
> >> -Wilson
> >> -----
> >> All say, "How hard it is that we have to die!"---a strange complaint
> >> to come from the mouths of people who have had to live.
> >> -Mark Twain
> >>
> >> ------------------------------------------------------------
> >> The American Dialect Society - http://www.americandialect.org
> >>
> >
> >
> >
> > --
> > "If the truth is half as bad as I think it is, you can't handle the
> truth."
> >
> > ------------------------------------------------------------
> > The American Dialect Society - http://www.americandialect.org
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------
> The American Dialect Society - http://www.americandialect.org
>



--
"If the truth is half as bad as I think it is, you can't handle the truth."

------------------------------------------------------------
The American Dialect Society - http://www.americandialect.org