Wrong and Holla

[Laurence Horn]

At 6:16 PM -0800 3/2/04, Benjamin Barrett wrote:
>?This quarter, a student has used wrong and holla in interesting ways.
>
>He uses wrong as a predicate to mean unfair. "This is wrong," he proclaims,
>meaning the way a paper was graded was wrong.
>
>Also, he used holla to mean to spread one's arms out in a rapper-like
>movement.
>
>I haven't checked around for wrong, but holla doesn't seem to be recorded in
>dictionaries.
>
The former doesn't seem that exotic to me; "right" and "wrong" to
mean 'fair'/'unfair' (as in the grading of papers) strikes me as
within familiar usage.  The latter I'm not familiar with (in the
given sense).

Larry Horn