Date: Wed, 8 Jan 1997 20:44:36 -0700

From: William King wfking[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]CCIT.ARIZONA.EDU

Subject: Re: Popular Ebonics



There is also a blurb in the "Conventional Wisdom Watch" that appears on

page six:

Ebonics - Goofy debate's silver lining: dissing

"black English" no longer taboo.



Is Newsweek being sarcastic here? Using "dissing" in this blurb? If not,

I'm completely stunned.



Gregory J. Pulliam



That's the complete and unexpurgated copy, as the paperback covers

used to say. I think that the intention is to be clever, or at best

ironic. It is ironic that Newsweek, so clever and informed, sums

this up as a debate, given the number of issues.



Any guesses as to Newsweek's marketing department's current reader profile?



Bill King

U. of Arizona SLAT program