Date:  Fri, 28 Jul 1995 17:04:45 -0400

From:  "M. Lynne Murphy" <104LYN[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]MUSE.ARTS.WITS.AC.ZA>

Subject: Re: Your Momma -- Sexual Connotation?



> >it's a world-wide thing--usu. reference to knowledge of someone's

...

>

>  I will dispute this universal. It does not work this way in the Bantu

...

> Salikoko S. Mufwene



sorry--my intention was not to say that it was universal, but that

it's found in various parts of the globe--not just california, and

not just among geographically or culturally close groups.





lynne



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