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<FONT FACE="Times New Roman"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:12pt'>On 6/28/08 1:58 AM, "Dennis Baron" <<a href="debaron@illinois.edu">debaron@illinois.edu</a>> wrote:<BR>
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</SPAN></FONT><BLOCKQUOTE><FONT SIZE="1"><FONT FACE="Arial"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:9pt'>Always ready to insult those who disagree with his interpretations, J. Scalia called the linguistic analyses supporting the D.C. law “unknown this side of the looking glass (except, apparently, in some courses on Linguistics)” and “worthy of the mad hatter” <BR>
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</SPAN></FONT></FONT><FONT FACE="Times New Roman"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:12pt'>Dennis, Did he really say this? Do we really get this little respect? Damn! No wonder my students don’t believe me when I tell them AAVE is a perfectly normal form of language. It’s so weird that when I first read your post I thought it was satire... Then I actually looked at the brief.<BR>
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As I often say: We’re all doomed.<BR>
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Ron</SPAN></FONT>
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