nekkid

[Victor Steinbok]

Sometimes you pull the trigger too quickly, Wilson--and sometimes I do.

What I meant is that they sources mostly indicated the ethnicity of the
speaker, not that the expression is in itself somehow a marker. But the
WWII period sources were the only ones NOT to indicate BE--which is why
I simply tagged them as "army".

And I certainly have never found you stupid, nor do I expect to.

     VS-)

On 3/12/2011 12:54 AM, Wilson Gray wrote:
> On Sat, Mar 12, 2011 at 12:07 AM, victor steinbok<aardvark66 at gmail.com>  wrote:
>> illustrative of either BEV or army vernacular
> In what sense is _nekkid_ "illustrative" of anything, WRT either BE or
> Army "vernacular," whatever that may mean? Do you intend a reference
> to eye-dialect? Nothing else makes the least sense, unless I'm as
> preternaturally stupid as we colored are reputed to be.
>
> --
> -Wilson

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