TWAIN-L Archives

Mark Twain Forum

TWAIN-L@YORKU.CA
Options: Use Classic View

Use Monospaced Font
Show Text Part by Default
Condense Mail Headers

Topic: [<< First] [< Prev] [Next >] [Last >>]

Print Reply
Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT
Sender: Mark Twain Forum <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: jargon
From: [log in to unmask]
Date: Thu, 9 Apr 1998 19:19:04 -0500
MIME-version: 1.0
Content-type: TEXT/PLAIN; CHARSET=US-ASCII
Reply-To: Mark Twain Forum <[log in to unmask]>
Parts/Attachments: TEXT/PLAIN (8 lines) 
Has anyone thought to say that the phrase "Mark Twain" is itself a piece
of jargon, and that "Life on the Mississippi," for example, is
full of riverboat jargon, obsolete at that?

Jargon? It all depends on who's being jarred.

Glen Johnson

ATOM RSS1 RSS2