IsLAHM

[Jonathan Lighter]

It's as though there's a modern suprasegmental involving altered stress or
the like that means "I'm a sophisticated world citizen, definitely not a
bigot, and you're probably the opposite."

Unparalleled in human history?

JL

On Mon, Nov 1, 2010 at 7:49 AM, Jonathan Lighter <wuxxmupp2000 at gmail.com>wrote:

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> The unacknowledgedl reason he was fired: "Bad grammar."
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> On Mon, Nov 1, 2010 at 7:40 AM, Charles C Doyle <cdoyle at uga.edu> wrote:
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> > I'll bet Juan Williams says IZlum.
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> > The trendy pronunciation, esp. on NPR.
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> > Shows you're not a bigot.
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