From: "julian samuel" <jjsamuel-AT-vif.com>
Subject: Samuel Durrant
Date: Wed, 25 Oct 2000 17:05:11 -0700


> Date: Wed, 25 Oct 2000 12:42:24 GMT0BST
> From: "Samuel Durrant" <durrant-AT-ENGLISH.NOVELL.LEEDS.AC.UK>
> Subject: Re: postcolonial-digest V2 #1311
>
> dear Julian
> it all seems a while ago now but rather than "chickening out," as you
> put it, I suppose I ought to explain my apparently rather cryptic
> comment (It wasn't meant to be hight falutin', I simply hadn't the
> time to explain myself better--maybe I should have remained silent).
> By careless racialisation of lang (I suspect you know very well what
>  I meant but will press on regardless) I mean your suggestion that
> we can differentiate between white and black "tongues" (to use your
> word).  My point seemed to me to be rather obvious:
> regional accents are--as you are aware--very distinct
> in the UK and its simply impossible to talk of white working
> class english or modern black english without reference to a
> particular city/region.  Once you have specified a region, I'm still
> dubious as to whether you can differentiate between say a black and a
> white version of Yorkshire speech.  (My reaction to your piece was
> similar to that inspired by those muesli packets in the States that
> dream of "European" meadows).
> Sam
>
> Sam.
> Samuel Durrant
> Lecturer, School of English
> Leeds University, Leeds LS2 9JT.
> Tel 0113 233 4768

Dear Samuel Durrant:

    I think your criticism is valid. I should have been more precise.
Thanks.

Julian Samuel




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