Re: The "prison IS university" metaphor - a review

In article <ieott3hu38gkts9k58rtddqjcohrqamhg4@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>, tony cooper
<tony_cooper213@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> On Mon, 17 Mar 2008 20:01:38 +0000 (GMT), David
> <nospam@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:

> >But, all that confustibulification aside...I take it you're claiming
> >that "Yank" doesn't, in fact, derive from "Yankee"?

> As far as I'm concerned, "Yank" derived from "Yankee".  That does not
> mean that "Yank" and "Yankee" are used the same way today.  Do you
> need examples of other words that do not have the same usage today as
> they once did?

I think you forgot "in the US" at the end of your 2nd sentence. There
are other parts of the world (yes, such mythical realms really do
exist!) where Yank is just the modern, shortened, form of Yankee - as,
I suppose, Brit is the modern, shortened, form of Briton (although in a
newsgroup not very far from here, several otherwise intelligent
subscribers spent many posts arguing that the greengrocery plural,
Brit's, was in reality an elided "British").

Incidentally, is it true that in the US, I should have to punctuate the
end of that last sentence as ... in reality an elided "British)." ...?

> How about "politically correct"?  We've just been treated to a
> lecture about how the current usage does not reflect what the term
> meant when it was coined.

Must have missed that (was it in AUE?) Could you summarise?

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