uncle@ucsbcsl.UUCP (08/15/86)
i am in agreement with testa's remarks re: language; his note reminded me of past years when wilhelm bunkley on his own show or john simon on dick cavett's show used to launch into tirades against 'black english'; in fact the average, certified by nancy reagan white is not only in a state of complette confusion about the meaning and function of inflection, but also and more seriously in complete confusion about logical quantification'sexpression in natural language!!! even self styled airheadocrats like bunkley and simon fall prey to this annoying linguistic phenomenon: e.g.: A asserts: 'all republicans are airheads'; B answers: 'ALL republicans aren't airheads'; what B MEANS is : ' NOT ALL republicans are airheads'. so much for the arogant, unfounded pretentions of the likes of bunkley, simon et al. !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! [ My goodness, 45 exclamation points. It MUST be true! :-) - CWM] -------