[Ads-l] Link to Article on "African-American"

[Laurence Horn]

> On Aug 31, 2016, at 10:37 PM, Wilson Gray <hwgray at GMAIL.COM> wrote:
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> On Wed, Aug 31, 2016 at 10:13 PM, Shapiro, Fred <fred.shapiro at yale.edu>
> wrote:
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>> the author could have been a white person adopting the pose of being black.
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> Or not. The author could have been a black person adopting the pose of
> being a white person adopting the pose of being black. Turtles all the way
> down.
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> Youneverknow.
> 
> Those of a certain age may recall "Leave Leave Leave Your Language Alone!
> Alone! Alone!"
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> If I understand correctly, you can't do this kind of thing in Pirahã.

Right, they're not really into nesting in the Amazon--too many wild critters around to disturb the nests.  Robert A. Hall Jr. had it easy.
> 
> Thus we refute Beelzebub. Uh, _Chomsky_.
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> 
> -- 
> -Wilson
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> All say, "How hard it is that we have to die!"---a strange complaint to
> come from the mouths of people who have had to live.
> -Mark Twain
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