Re: Lolita in China

From: Ron Hardin (rhhardin_at_mindspring.com)
Date: 10/08/04 

Date: Fri, 08 Oct 2004 18:53:39 GMT

Peter T. Daniels wrote:
>
> Ron Hardin wrote:
> >
> > Peter T. Daniels wrote:
> > >
> > > Ron Hardin wrote:
> > > >
> > > > Peter T. Daniels wrote:
> > > > > > > Why do you expect to find English grammatical categories in Cantonese?
> > > > > >
> > > > > > One of the ways taboo words are transgressive is of grammatical categories.
> > > > >
> > > > > How is that an apt response to the question?
> > > >
> > > > Whether it's an ordinary word or transgressive of categories was the question.
> > >
> > > > On the internet, nobody knows you're a jerk.
> > >
> > > No, the question was, "Why do you expect to find English grammatical
> > > categories in Cantonese?"
> >
> > I don't. Why do you?
>
> > On the internet, nobody knows you're a jerk.
>
> You're pretending to be Dan Rather?
>
> You described the Cantonese expression in terms of English grammatical
> categories.

To an English speaker. 

-- 
Ron Hardin
rhhardin@mindspring.com
On the internet, nobody knows you're a jerk.

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