Johanna, 

Your post no post no etc. message reminds me of an item one of my students
sent me.  

Click on this link: 

http://www.petebevin.com/archives/2006/07/22/buffalo_buffalo_buffalo_buffalo
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Christine Gray 


-----Original Message-----
From: Assembly for the Teaching of English Grammar
[mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Johanna Rubba
Sent: Monday, September 11, 2006 3:31 AM
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Subject: Re: Code Mixing

Speaking of Cosby, here's a quotation from the speech he gave to the 
NAACP that caused all the fuss about him:

"They're standing on the corner and they can't speak English," he 
exclaimed. "I can't even talk the way these people talk: 'Why you 
ain't,' 'Where you is' . . . And I blamed the kid until I heard the 
mother talk. And then I heard the father talk. . . . Everybody knows 
it's important to speak English except these knuckleheads. . . . You 
can't be a doctor with that kind of crap coming out of your mouth!"

I think he used to talk that way in his comedy routines, when he was a 
much younger (and hipper?) guy.

Dr. Johanna Rubba, Associate Professor, Linguistics
Linguistics Minor Advisor
English Department
California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo
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Tel.: 805.756.2184
Dept. Ofc. Tel.: 805.756.2596
Dept. Fax: 805.756.6374
URL: http://www.cla.calpoly.edu/~jrubba

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