Edward Harris, AP, on Nigerian English

[Joel S. Berson]

At 3/3/2008 03:06 PM, Wilson Gray wrote:
>Great post, Jo-El! Thanks!
>
>It's kinda weird, though, because, if you were black, it wouldn't be a
>joke to call you Jo-El.

You;re on the wrong track, Wilson.  As Laurence Horn has surmised,
I'm actually an otherwise-unknown refugee from Krypton.

"JB"  (another alias I use).

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