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From: ed@unisoft.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.jokes
Subject: Re: BLKTRAN (offensive to blacks)
Message-ID: <161@unisoft.UUCP>
Date: Sun, 23-Oct-83 16:47:57 EDT
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Posted: Sun Oct 23 16:47:57 1983
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It's not the use of dialect that's offensive.  There are serious denegrations
present in the BLKTRAN article.  If it weren't for those (and I'm sure
the language could be properly redefined, without, e.g., references
to arithmetic capabilities) it would be funny.

Ed Gould
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