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Subject: agreement with testa's remarks re: language
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Date: Fri, 15-Aug-86 16:44:12 EDT
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i am in agreement with testa's remarks re: language; his note reminded
me of past years when wilhelm bunkley on his own show or john simon on
dick cavett's show used to launch into tirades against 'black
english'; in fact the average, certified by nancy reagan white is not
only in a state of complette confusion about the meaning and function
of inflection, but also and more seriously in complete confusion about
logical quantification'sexpression in natural language!!! even self
styled airheadocrats like bunkley and simon fall prey to this annoying
linguistic phenomenon: e.g.: A asserts: 'all republicans are
airheads'; B answers:

'ALL republicans aren't airheads'; what B MEANS is : ' NOT ALL 
republicans are airheads'.
so much for the arogant, unfounded pretentions of the likes of 
bunkley, simon et al. !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[ My goodness, 45 exclamation points.  It MUST be true! :-) - CWM]
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