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Subject:'gypped' -- a no no From:"David L. Bergart" <bodafu -at- CCVAX -dot- SINICA -dot- EDU -dot- TW> Date:Wed, 11 May 1994 08:50:37 +0800
>Am I the only non-attendee (heyyy, he whines, I *wanted* to go...) who feels
>gypped? Could the Harold-Bev correspondence make its way online at some
>point?
I suspect that the person who wrote this would not have even considered using
'...who feels jewed?'. The gypsies have a much smaller presence, so there is
little social pressure to avoid this useage.
Speaking for the silent
David
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Copy oddity^h^h^h^h^h^heditor, Botanical Bulletin of Academia Sinica, Taiwan
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