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On Wed, 1 Sep 1999, Owen Cramer wrote:

> There are words in that song that I always think of when it's time to start
> teaching again:
> 
> Oh dear white children casual as birds,
> Playing among the ruined languages. [...]

Why "white"? Transferred epithet from the ruins?

EJTh


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