homophonic slurs

[Arnold M. Zwicky]

On Jul 22, 2007, at 4:06 PM, Wilson Gray wrote:

> 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 ..."?

as i said, it's a meta-example: "a white kid called me a [expletive
deleted]".  it specifically is *not* like the other examples.

arnold

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