an essay on language

[Frances Morey]

Wayne,
Even as a teenager I couldn't understand the words of most popular songs so I used to buy those music magazines that had them all printed out. As songs got less and less literate even these publications disappeared.
Once I saw a very old ugly stump of a man with two drop-dead gorgeous women on each arm as they had emerged from his most expensive new Cadilac. I questioned who the guy was and was told that he was the owner of the taco stand that had been at 1st and Congress, and he had sold for over a million dollars to make room for the high rise now on the site. 

Mike,
Who, pray tell, was the Nobel Prize winner whose comments were in Byron's language post?

Wayne,
What was the Ted Turner revelation? Inquiring ghetts want to know.
Frances


 


 --- On Sat 03/20, Wayne Johnson < cadaobh@shentel.net > wrote:
From: Wayne Johnson [mailto: cadaobh@shentel.net]
To: austin-ghetto-list@pairlist.net
Date: Sat, 20 Mar 2004 11:56:32 -0500
Subject: Re: an essay on language by Byron A. Marshall, the sage of Pineville, Louisiana

Yes, but who *among us* knows the words?  Lord knows I don't.<br><br>But then I could only "understand" them when I was in a suitable "altered<br>state of consciousness."<br><br>wj<br>----- Original Message ----- <br>From: "Stephanie Chernikowski" <stephaniecher@earthlink.net><br>To: <austin-ghetto-list@pairlist.net><br>Sent: Saturday, March 20, 2004 8:47 AM<br>Subject: Re: an essay on language by Byron A. Marshall, the sage of<br>Pineville, Louisiana<br><br><br>><br>> On Saturday, March 20, 2004, at 08:24 AM, Wayne Johnson wrote:<br>><br>> > Who knows all the words to Louie, Louie?<br>><br>> there was a book written on this subject. not an article, a BOOK.<br>><br>><br>><br>><br>><br>> Stephanie Chernikowski<br>> StepCherPhoto.com<br>><br>><br>><br><br><br><br>