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Subject:OPINION: Dissin'? Arrgg! From:Beverly Parks <bparks -at- HUACHUCA-EMH1 -dot- ARMY -dot- MIL> Date:Thu, 9 Mar 1995 07:49:03 MST
(Please note, this is in no way an attack on the author of the
referenced line. The word is all I'm concerned with here. :-))
Someone had this line in a recent posting on a different subject:
> ...don't think I'm "dissin'" y'all please).
I don't like the term "dissin'." I'm not even sure what it
means. But I'm sure the word it is meant to replace is a
very good, established English word. One that the majority of
the English-speaking world would understand. Unlike some
new-fangled connection of letters that just sounds like someone
never learned how to talk.
Maybe I need to watch more MTV. Maybe MTV is the Learning
Channel of the future.
End of tirade. Deep breath taken.
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