End of ADS-L Digest - 22 Oct 1997 to 23 Oct 1997
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Subject: ADS-L Digest - 23 Oct 1997 to 24 Oct 1997
There are 30 messages totalling 965 lines in this issue.

Topics of the day:

 1. sociolinguistic competence (2)
 2. Your mail (5)
 3. - no subject (01IP5OGNV35Q8X2EE4) -
 4. hello/good-bye (3)
 5. Those (expletive deleted) stereotypes
 6. the mindlessness of "bless you"
 7. Sneeze
 8. Blendings in Festival Names (2)
 9. sea change (6)
 10. Damned if you do, damned if you don't
 11. annoying phatic utterances
 12. "How are you doing?" (2)
 13. The whole "bless you-thing"
 14. "Bless you" (2)
 15. Summary: AmEng external sandhi

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Date:  Fri, 24 Oct 1997 01:55:49 EDT
From:  Julia Cochran <COCPROFS[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]UGA.CC.UGA.EDU>
Subject: Re: sociolinguistic competence

On Thu, 23 Oct 1997 16:42:55 -0400 Beverly Flanigan said:

>  On "Bless you" specifically: It is of course intended as a "tail wag"
>  (referred to generally as phatic communication). But the presumed
>  sharing of a religious/theological frame of reference is what I react
>  to when I remain silent

Maybe, to be consistent, then, one might become silently angry whenever one is
subjected to other religiously/theologically framed expressions such as "damn
it," "go to hell," and "oh my God!"