Re: [ADS-L] does an yone need another example of positive ANYMORE ?

[RonButters at AOL.COM]

Could one stick to the topic?

Mr. Harbeck's response may be true enough, but linguistically irrelevant
(unless perhaps you count Jack Chambers' interesting article on the use of
historical linguistic analysis in defending Canadian Indian treaty rights). And only
tangentially, at best, relevant to the depiction of the Lone Ranger's putative
killing of Indians (and warm friendship, 20th century style, with Tonto).

James Harbeck writes:

> In Canada, we signed treaties with them and then cheated them out of
> much of it, without all the gun-happiness. And in more recent times
> social conditions on Canadian reserves are, in many cases, such that
> no further outside assistance is needed for the population to be
> nearly decimated* even by the age of majority, mainly through suicide
> or alcohol-related accidents.
>
> *using it in the sense that some people keep insisting is the only
> correct sense, of course
>
> James Harbeck.
>
>
>




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