Date:  Wed, 9 Nov 1994 11:23:20 -0800

From:  Dan Alford <dalford[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]S1.CSUHAYWARD.EDU>

Subject: re Prof. Mufwene's reply



Please do ignore it all. It was truly intended as a (perhaps misguided?) sign of

respect and perhaps a covert message to your subconscious on how to receive it,

and as a (feeble?) attempt to be personal, whether invited or not, via a

faceless and impersonal medium. I have not yet mastered proper Emoticonography

as I should (;->



Moonhawk



PS -- "indigenous": actually I prefer to take that word politically rather

than objectively, where it loses most of its meaning and force. And there is

a small part of me that is indigenous in both senses of the term, and that I

honor whenever I can.(:0)



And thank you for allowing me to save face!