Date: Tue, 2 Jan 1996 14:38:39 -0500

From: Benjamin Barrett Gogaku[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]GNN.COM

Subject: Re: New Joiner Here



Date: Tue, 2 Jan 1996 11:45:51 +0800

From: Russ McClay mcclay[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]PROQC.COM.TW

Sender: American Dialect Society ADS-L[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]UGA.CC.UGA.EDU

[snip]

Finally, living overseas makes keeping up on all the current expressions

difficult. One that piqued my interest a year or two ago is "dis" /

"dissed".

[snip]



I can remember hearing "dis" as a short form of "disrespect" in high school,

about 12 years ago (Seattle). I think it ran epedemic, totally replacing

the then common verb "dog."



yoroshiku

Benjamin Barrett