[Ads-l] "NA's"

[Wilson Gray]

On Mon, Sep 28, 2015 at 10:06 PM, Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at yale.edu>
wrote:

> with no pejorative intent


Of course not. That's why the writer was careful to preface his assertion
that NA's are as much immigrants as anyone else, when you get down to the
real nitty-gritty, with an expletive indicating that "first come, first
served" is, well, bullshit, WRT its application to the so-called "NA's."
It's as silly as regarding PR's as "native-born" citizens of the U.S.

Interestingly - to me, anyway - the apostrophe in _NA's_ is original. Such
use of the apostrophe isn't usual, anymore.
-- 
-Wilson
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