[Ads-l] RES: QOTY candidate

[Laurence Horn]

Ok, “independent” “corroboration” of the opinion  So it must be true. But I also liked his third-person self reference. 

LH

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> On Oct 10, 2024, at 7:22 AM, David Daniel <dad at coarsecourses.com> wrote:
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> De: American Dialect Society [mailto:ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU] Em nome de
> Stanton McCandlish
> Enviada em: quinta-feira, 10 de outubro de 2024 00:20
> Para: ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU
> Assunto: Re: QOTY candidate
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> For a Trump QotY, I would think it'd have to be the one from the debate,
> about immigrants eating our cats and dogs. It's the nuttiest thing a
> politician has said since "Jewish space lasers".
> 
> It may be nutty, but it's not new. The following is from the New York Times,
> August 9, 1982, Section A, page 14.
> "Every so often a news report reminds us that sizable communities of Vietnam
> War refugees now in America brought with them customs that war with American
> law.
> In 1980 Southeast Asian refugees were reported poaching and eating
> squirrels, ducks and dogs in San Francisco's Golden Gate Park.
> With their old world hunting and trapping skills, they were attempting to
> carry on the way of life they had known, in a place they did not know.
> In 1981, a similar problem confounded wildlife authorities in Utah.
> Vietnamese, Cambodian, and Laotian refugees were poaching deer, porcupines,
> skunks, doves, woodpeckers, robins, baby birds, duck eggs and fish.
> Officials translated state game laws into the refugee languages and even put
> on slide shows, to no avail.
> Now comes news from Seattle that Laotian Hmong refugees have been growing
> opium poppies in their vegetable gardens. Someone asked the police to
> identify the bright red flowers. Seattle police found more than 4000 Papaver
> somniferum.
> Vietnam remains with us, in odd and unpredicted ways."
> 
> The same page has a Times opinion piece about a senate bill to crack down on
> illegal immigration and cap legal immigration. When I lived in San Francisco
> in the late 80s the running joke/rumor was that park pigeons had been
> disappearing ever since the arrival of Southeast Asian refugees. Anyway, US
> politicians accusing immigrants of varied un-American behavior to rouse the
> rabble against them goes back at least to the 19th century. 
> DAD 
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