[Ads-l] A linguistic lesson in diversity and tolerance

[Margaret E. Winters]

The version we used to tell (I started my career teaching French) was a cat and a dog -- still a good story!


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MARGARET E WINTERS
On Leave
Office of the Provost
Wayne State University
Detroit, MI  48202

mewinters at wayne.edu

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From: American Dialect Society <ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU> on behalf of Joel Berson <berson at ATT.NET>
Sent: Sunday, September 4, 2016 9:54:41 PM
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Subject: A linguistic lesson in diversity and tolerance

Two sheep meet in a meadow.

The first one greets the other with "Baaaaa."

The second one replies "Moooo."

Sheep 1:  "Sheep don't say 'Moooo,' they say 'Baaaaa'."

Sheep 2:  "No, I say 'Moooo'; I'm studying a foreign language and culture."

(I think this would make a neat lesson for, say, third-graders.)


Joel


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