My suggestion is to start a new topic about racism in music and use the webster or OED definition from the get-go. then maybe it would go more smoothly???
> > this is the point exactly. How do we know what anyone else means unless > we use the one common source of the meaning of the words we use in our > language? > > I can see tristan really wishes the words mean something different to > the rest of us, but it just hasn't happened yet. > > Linguistics and sociology aren't my chosen fields, otherwise I could > pretend to be academic and have a wank off discussion about the topic > with him. > > On Fri, 2002-03-08 at 14:27, T.J.Johnson wrote: > > Tristan has a great point here. Besides, how do you know that the person > > who posted originally about racism meant it the same way as webster did?! > > TJ www.wireframerecords.com www.mp313.com ________________________________________________ PeoplePC: It's for people. And it's just smart. http://www.peoplepc.com --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
