[Ads-l] Do y'all know about this?

[Jonathan Lighter]

Huh?

JL

On Sat, Jan 24, 2015 at 10:56 AM, Tom Zurinskas <truespel at hotmail.com>
wrote:

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> Foe geda bow dit.  Ain no buddy speaks lie dat no moe.
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> Tom Zurinskas=2C  Originally SWConn 20 yrs=2C  college Tenn 3=2C  work NJ
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>  > Date: Sat=2C 24 Jan 2015 07:57:49 -0500
> > From: wuxxmupp2000 at GMAIL.COM
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> > Wow!  They learned to speak over 150 years ago!
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> > On Fri=2C Jan 23=2C 2015 at 10:45 PM=2C Wilson Gray <hwgray at gmail.com>
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> > > Part 1 Hear Former Slaves Speak
> > > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3D3VTFkyDrH3M
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> > > You can hear the speaker say=2C
> > >
> > > marsta=2C mississ=2C chillun=2C gwine=2C cotched=2C full (as a
> verb)=2C=
>  wear (someone)
> > > out =3D "give (someone) a beating=2C" etc.
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> > > Otherwise=2C IMO=2C the speaker could be any random black speaker of
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> > > talking.
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> > > --
> > > -Wilson
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> > > All say=2C "How hard it is that we have to die!"---a strange complaint
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> > > come from the mouths of people who have had to live.
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