[Ads-l] a different take on "chain migration"

[paul johnson]

Is it the double G sound?  I don't think so, beggar is no worse to my 
ears  worse than panhandler or bum.  Deadbeat or leach always seemed the 
worse in that category.


On 2/22/2018 6:56 PM, Barretts Mail wrote:
> The same applies to the word “faggot”. It’s an in-group/out-group thing combined with reclamation. BB
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>> On 22 Feb 2018, at 16:38, paul johnson <paulzjoh at MTNHOME.COM> wrote:
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>> I'm upset that on television blacks can call themselves or each other 'nigger'  but I can't say it unless I'm packing.  Curious, can they under that protocol, are they proscribed from calling whites 'honkys'
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>> On 2/22/2018 6:29 PM, W Brewer wrote:
>>> Wonder who pulled her chain.
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