Wolof hip

[Beverly Flanigan]

Of course not!  I just don't know how to show irony in a smiley.

At 06:16 PM 11/29/2004, you wrote:
>Beverly, are you serious?
>
>JL
>
>Beverly Flanigan <flanigan at OHIOU.EDU> wrote:
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>So other people are more articulate? What does this mean?? Sounds like
>the old "primitive language" idea--except that now we're the primitives!
>
>At 12:35 PM 11/29/2004, you wrote:
> >The late appearance of "uh-huh," etc., in print may partly reflect the
> >superprescriptionist idea that they "aren't words"; second, their
> >spelling, until regularized, would be problematical. It may be that many
> >potentially earlier cites are disguised in phrases such as, "He answered
> >with a grunt."
> >
> >Dalby may be right, of course, but white people can be quite inarticulate.
> >The native grunt-and-groan elements of English may always have been
> >sufficient. What about "um-hmm"?
> >
> >I see no way of resolving this question on the basis of current knowledge.
> >
> >JL
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