"Nappy-headed who'es" redux

Tue May 15 16:47:59 UTC 2007

On May 15, 2007, at 9:07 AM, Wilson Gray wrote:

> The Boston Globe's language maven has an interesting discussion of
> European attempts to translate the "nappy-" in "nappy-headed."

this is a pointer to and summary of the following Language Log posting:

ML [posting for Reinhold Aman], 5/7/07:
  Diaper-headed whores; or, how not to translate “nappy-headed hos”:
  http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/004473.html

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