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

[Wilson Gray]

On Wed, Aug 31, 2016 at 10:13 PM, Shapiro, Fred <fred.shapiro at yale.edu>
wrote:

> the author could have been a white person adopting the pose of being black.


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.

Youneverknow.

Those of a certain age may recall "Leave Leave Leave Your Language Alone!
Alone! Alone!"

If I understand correctly, you can't do this kind of thing in Pirahã.

Thus we refute Beelzebub. Uh, _Chomsky_.


-- 
-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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