OFF: dialect posts

Tom Clark tclark at PETRONET.NET
Thu Aug 5 23:53:43 EDT 1999


Thank you. The end.

"Sen. Volstead" wrote:

> Tom Clark wrote:
>
> > Wow.....again....
> >
> > I sure did not  intend for the previous discussion to continue futher in
> > this fashion...now, it really is turning into something ugly....the
> > Onion is quite funny, but the ebonics thing ought to be left alone and
> > my posting taken as intended, and not any more than that.
> >
> > Sorry for bringing it up to begin with.....
>
> A reference to the Onion should only bring joy and levity to such a draining
> string of messages. It seems everything must be brutally judged and labelled
> as racist (when it is clearly not in this case), out of fear of offending
> someone otherwise. This only draws more attention to this 'ugly' subject and
> poisons any attempt to get off of it with good humor. Not a single person on
> this list has racist intentions in anything they post, and this should be
> obvious.



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