From: "Chris Ward" <Crbward-AT-dmn.com.au>
Subject: Re: here we go... (III)
Date: Wed, 20 May 1998 17:05:47 +0800


I agree, I think.  The net makes wags and wiseguys out of many who would be
better suited to the anonymity of library carels--although anonymity may be
the very feature of this kind of internet chit chat that provokes the worst
variety of flamboyance and neologistic babble in people like me.  Regards.

-----Original Message-----
From: David Skreiner <david_s-AT-hco.kol.ou.dk>
To: postcolonial-AT-lists.village.Virginia.EDU
<postcolonial-AT-lists.village.Virginia.EDU>
Date: Wednesday, 20 May 1998 18:39
Subject: Re: here we go... (III)


>Hi,
>
>Wayne Pounds wrote:
>
>> Pardon my ignorance. I'm missing something here. Could someone please
tell me
>> what "poco" writers are?
>
>'poco' seems to be the accepted way of abbreviating "postcolonial" on this
mailing
>list, just as "postmodernist" is commonly abbreviated to PoMo or even pomo.
>
>(Fun to see what the net does to language... these news and email
conversations
>have some elements of an oral or spoken quality in them, plus these
annoying
>emoticons and smileys....  ;-)
>
>
>
>david skreiner
>
>
>
>
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