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- Date: Sat, 23 Jan 1993 18:17:33 EST
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- Subject: Re: Shark
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- Posted on 23 Jan 1993 at 17:44:58 by Peter Montgomery
- >Some call it bullshit; some call it ironic tone; some call it
- >tongue in cheek (but that's a cliche).
-
- "Ironic tone" is one of those things that just seems not to
- translate well from speech to the nets.
-
- >I might throw out the
- >odd probe like that from time to time to see who's awake and
- >what mode their minds are in. Usually I get a laugh from my
- >students when I do it. Obviously WORDS-L is in a different mode.
-
- Oh yes! 1) We are not face-to-face, and 2) we are not sucking up
- for a grade.
-
- >So if the word didn't just
- >suddenly appear from nowhere, you tell me where it came from.
-
- I don't know where it came from, that's why I asked. But I'm a
- historical linguist, Peter, and I know that while we do not always
- know where words came from, they certainly do come from somewhere.
-
- Karen
-