Nigger vs. Colored, et al.

[Michael Newman]

I got disjunctivitis.


Michael Newman
Associate Professor of Linguistics
Queens College/CUNY
michael.newman at qc.cuny.edu



On Mar 2, 2011, at 9:35 PM, Laurence Horn wrote:

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> Subject:      Re: Nigger vs. Colored, et al.
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> At 8:25 PM -0500 3/2/11, Michael Newman wrote:
>> i want to point out in this discussion that in current usage for
>> many speakers, the form nigga has no racial reference. It's
>> essentially dude, but for a different demographic. I'm not
>> justifying it or not.
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> Sorry; I didn't make it past the disjunction in this last sentence in
> Michael's message.  :-)
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> LH
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