Re: Why ethnical jokes?
WVanhou237 (wvanhou237@aol.com)
3 Oct 1996 05:22:24 -0400
In article <3250C172.6A7D@gladstone.uoregon.edu>, Adam Price
<ami@gladstone.uoregon.edu> writes:
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>Ethnic, remember is already an adjective. There is no need to append it
>with "al" (ethnicAL) when using it to modify a noun. The word coast
>used to share this property, but through repeated misuses over the last
>fourty years, we have developed the bastardization "coastal".
>
>-ami
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An English teacher with a sense of humor? My how times change.
W. .F. Van Houten
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The Lurker knows!
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