Date:  Wed, 4 Jan 1995 11:16:57 EST

From:  Wayne Glowka <wglowka[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]MAIL.GAC.PEACHNET.EDU>

Subject: Re: Gullah Bible



>I have a Krio (Sierra Leone) New Testament (United Bible Societies, 1985)

>which is also very well done and might make an interesting contrastive

>exercise with selected passages from a Gullah version.

>What in the hell is HEL (and why is the bible such a good thing to teach it

>with)?

>Wait, wait, wait! Could it possibly be History of the English Language?

>Dennis Preston



You obviously have never been a member of HEL-L, which was hellish for the

one week I subscribed. Like Dryden reading _The Iliad_, I felt too old for

all that passion in regard to non-gender-specific singular pronouns, words

like "huperdaughter" (=human - man; person - son; and son = daughter), the

difference between a chair you sit on and a chair you dump on (or a head

you dump on and a head you--well--dump on), and other things too explosive

and engaging for an amateur as opposed to a warrior.







Wayne Glowka

Professor of English

Director of Research and Graduate Student Services

Georgia College

Milledgeville, GA 31061

912-453-4222

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