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

On Mon, 17 Mar 2008 22:27:50 +0000 (GMT), David
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>In article <ieott3hu38gkts9k58rtddqjcohrqamhg4@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>, tony cooper
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>> On Mon, 17 Mar 2008 20:01:38 +0000 (GMT), David
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> wrote:
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>> >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.

No, what I forgot is to add "I live in the US and write from a US
perspective".  Oh, wait, part of that is in my sig.

> There
>are other parts of the world (yes, such mythical realms really do
>exist!) where Yank is just the modern, shortened, form of Yankee

I've been to Britain.  You don't have anything over there that is the
modern form of anything.  That's your charm.  Don't change it.

>
>> 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?

Not on your tintype, Nellie.   Mr Ambuhl teaches that class.


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Tony Cooper - Orlando, Florida