[rescue] happy new years and shit like that

[D.A. Muran-de Assereto]

Linguistic drift is interesting. Here we are pussyfooting around the "N"
word, and yet a friend of mine's 4-year old son uses it as a stand-in for
"friend". It's racially neutral, at least in some parts of the country.
My 19-year-old daughter reports that the Hispanics in Tucson use it as a
general-purpose replacement for 'friend' or 'comrade' as well.

Dave Muran-de Assereto

> From: "Sheldon T. Hall" <shel at cmhcsys.com>
> Reply-To: rescue at sunhelp.org
> Date: Sat, 5 Jan 2002 12:48:13 -0500
> To: <rescue at sunhelp.org>
> Subject: Re: [rescue] happy new years and shit like that
> 
> In Message: 12 on Sat, 5 Jan 2002 06:39:47 -0500 on the subject of "Re:
> [rescue] happy new years and shit like that" didst bill pointon
> <wpointon at earthlink.net> declaim:
> 
>> or the "N" word
>> 
>> nookie ???
> 
> Heh.  In Columbus, Ohio, there's a wedding dress-and-accessories shop called
> "The Bridal Nook."  Even my wife giggled when we drove past it.
> 
> -Shel
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