Obama and Black English in the NY Times

Wilson Gray hwgray at GMAIL.COM
Thu Sep 13 06:05:37 UTC 2012


On Tue, Sep 11, 2012 at 9:56 PM, Jonathan Lighter
<wuxxmupp2000 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Ya got me....

Yeah, naw (an often-parodied feature of the speech of Magic Johnson).
It was only a rhetorical question.

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