From: William Mann <bill_mann@sil.org>
To: J L Speranza <jls@netverk.com.ar>,
relevance list <relevance@linguistics.ucl.ac.uk>
Subject: Re: Banter
Date: Mon, 4 Nov 2002 12:32:25 -0500
What a fine array of readings for this word.
After more than five decades of listening to American English, I note
that
my principal use of the word seems to be out of sight: casual, fairly
purposeless talk, especially between two persons.
Bill Mann
(Technical note for the curious: this is coming from me, Nick, rather
than directly from Bill because Bill's message to the list included the
email he was replying to and the total length was too much for our
remailer at UCL. I've stripped out the quoted message and left just what
Bill wrote. Nicholas Allott, Relevance list administrator,
n.allott@ucl.ac.uk)
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