Sujet : Re: Bebe Moore Campbell died (27/11/2006)
De : kehoea (at) *nospam* parhasard.net (Aidan Kehoe)
Groupes : sci.langDate : 28. Nov 2024, 17:08:36
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Ar an t-ochtú lá is fiche de mí na Samhain, scríobh Ross Clark:
> American author, journalist and teacher.
> Age 56. Brain cancer.
>
> "The interviewer asks if she can be intimate with anyone who can't speak Black
> English:
>
> No. I can't. And the way I know is that with the very few white people whom I
> have really good feelings for I don't turn the censor on. When I let my hair
> down that much, then I trust you and I accept you. I know you know I know
> what's grammatical."
Odd way to phrase this, as if white people never struggle with standard
English.
>
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bebe_Moore_Campbell-- ‘As I sat looking up at the Guinness ad, I could never figure out /How your man stayed up on the surfboard after fourteen pints of stout’(C. Moore)