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Re: [xmca] FW: The Wire imitates Dostoyevsky?
I also use this picture book along with Chapter 7:
Yo! Yes (Caldecott Honor Book) by Chris Raschka
Nancy
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From: Peter Smagorinsky <smago@uga.edu>
Date: Friday, February 19, 2010 1:50 pm
Subject: [xmca] FW: The Wire imitates Dostoyevsky?
To: 'mca' <xmca@ucsd.edu>
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> Just read this while reading Bruner's intro to Thinking and Speech::
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> In Dostoevsky's The Diary of a Writer: Five drunken workmen
> carry out a
> complicated dialogue for five minutes, though the only word any
> of them
> utters is a "forbidden noun not used in mixed company."
> Intonation and
> circumstances determine its meaning in context.
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> Does anyone have an English version of this story you could post
> to the
> network? There's a scene from The Wire at
> <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KQbsnSVM1zM>
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KQbsnSVM1zM that seems based on
> FD's story. p
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