displaced relative clause

[Wilson Gray]

On Sun, Jul 1, 2012 at 12:58 PM, Michael Newman
<michael.newman at qc.cuny.edu> wrote:
> African American English

That's true. I'm not even sure what it is that you find abnormal about
that string.

OTOH, I'd write

"African-American"

or, simply,

"BE."

BTW, y'all know that there's a Facebook SIG with the name,

"Don't Call Me 'African-American'!"?

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-Wilson
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