homophonic slurs

[Wilson Gray]

Oh. Sorry.

-Wilson

On 7/22/07, Arnold M. Zwicky <zwicky at csli.stanford.edu> wrote:
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> On Jul 22, 2007, at 4:06 PM, Wilson Gray wrote:
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> > What's up with "The other day, a white kid called me a [slur] ..."  I
> > don't understand how this makes sense in the context of the other
> > examples. Is that supposed to be
> > " ... called me a slur ..."?
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> as i said, it's a meta-example: "a white kid called me a [expletive
> deleted]".  it specifically is *not* like the other examples.
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> arnold
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