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- Date: Sun, 3 Jan 1993 09:45:54 CST
- Sender: English Language Discussion Group <WORDS-L@uga.cc.uga.edu>
- From: Natalie Maynor <maynor@RA.MSSTATE.EDU>
- Subject: Re: Mousely Matters and Written Slang
- Comments: To: WORDS-L@uga.cc.uga.edu
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- > I meant I couldn't grap the concept of slang developing through
- written > language. Seems almost a contradiction in terms (unless you
- count
-
- I didn't mean that it got started or evolved in written language. And
- now that I think about it, it was perhaps erroneous to say that
- "copacetic" is more common in writing than in speech. (I do think I
- qualified that by saying "probably" tho.) I might be overestimating
- the size of the reading population. I know I've read it more often
- than I've said it. I'm not sure I've ever said it. And I *think* I've
- read it more often than I've heard it said.
- --Natalie (maynor@ra.msstate.edu)
-
- Interesting... I just tried ~|fmt (a command I keep forgetting about).
- It made my right margin a good bit fatter. But it screwed up the >'s in
- the lines I quoted. I guess "But" isn't the right word to start that
- sentence. It screwed up the >'s because it made the right margin fatter.
-