displaced relative clause

Jonathan Lighter wuxxmupp2000 at GMAIL.COM
Sun Jul 1 20:15:14 UTC 2012


Sounds normal to me too.

JL

On Sun, Jul 1, 2012 at 3:57 PM, Wilson Gray <hwgray at gmail.com> wrote:

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> 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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