The Korean(-American) passive "himself"?

[Laurence Horn]

At 12:36 PM -0400 4/23/07, Charles Doyle wrote:
>
>---- Original message ----
>>Date: Mon, 23 Apr 2007 12:22:21 -0400
>>From: Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at YALE.EDU>
>>Subject: Re: The Korean(-American) passive "himself"?
>  >To: ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU
>  >>
>>And after all, we never refer to John Wilkes Booth as the alleged
>>killer of Lincoln (unless we're a revisionist historian).
>>
>  >LH
>>
>But then there's Lee Harvey Oswald . . . .
>
>--Charlie
>____________________________________________________________

and at 9:47 AM -0700 4/23/07, Jonathan Lighter wrote:
>No, but there are nasty rumors that the real one got away and the
>one they buried is a fake.
>
>   Same for Jesse James.  NBC's "Unsolved Mysteries" covered both,
>along with the big UFO crash in Kecksburg.
>
>   JL

--whence my "unless" codicil above.  The "alleged" would come in only
for those who dispute the claim that Booth/Oswald was (solely?)
responsible for their respective (alleged) acts, not for those who
hold the mainstream views but are wary of using "killer" tout court
just because no trial and conviction took place.

LH

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