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From: alderson@netcom.com (Richard M. Alderson III)
Subject: Re: vato (was: Klingon Bible)
In-Reply-To: olivier@austin.ibm.com's message of Fri, 7 Oct 1994 00:10:37 GMT
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In article <CxA0Hp.2I2E@austin.ibm.com> olivier@austin.ibm.com (Olivier Cremel)
writes:

>In article <1994Oct5.191809.1@ctdvx5.priv.ornl.gov>, s25@ctdvx5.priv.ornl.gov
>writes:

>>``Homey'' seems to play the same role in African-American street slang.

>It is supposed to be the French "homme" (man) pronounced the American way.

By whom is it so supposed?

It is a natural outgrowth of the late 1960s/early 1970s use of the term "home
boy" and "homer" to mean "a (usually young) man of the same origins, often a
transplant from country to city life" among black men of my acquaintance at the
time.

Legendry at its finest, this other notion.
-- 
Rich Alderson   You know the sort of thing that you can find in any dictionary
                of a strange language, and which so excites the amateur philo-
                logists, itching to derive one tongue from another that they
                know better: a word that is nearly the same in form and meaning
                as the corresponding word in English, or Latin, or Hebrew, or
                what not.
                                                --J. R. R. Tolkien,
alderson@netcom.com                               _The Notion Club Papers_
