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ate: Mon, 17 Jun 96 11:58:59 PDT
From: "Peter G. Neumann" <neumann@csl.sri.com>
Subject: About the American Hyphen Society
Date: Mon, 2 Oct 1995 08:35:04 -0400
>From: bostic@bsdi.com (Keith Bostic)
To: /dev/null@python.bostic.com
[>FROM: Yucks Digest Wed, 12 Jun 96 Volume 6 : Issue 6]
spaf@cs.purdue.edu (Gene "Chief Yuckster" Spafford), to whom it was
Forwarded-by: kole@hydra.convex.com (John P. Kole)
>From: masson@convex.com (Bob Masson)
About the American Hyphen Society
The American Hyphen Society is a community-based, not-for-profit,
grass-roots consciousness-raising/education-research alliance that
seeks to help effectuate the across-the-board self-empowerment of
wide-ranging culture-, nationality-, ethnicity-, creed-, gender-,
and sexual-orientation defined identity groups by excising all
multiculturally-less-than-sensitive terminology from the English
language, and replacing it with counter-hegemonic, cruelty-, gender-,
bias-, and, if necessary, content-free speech. The society's motto
is "It became necessary to destroy the language in order to save it".
Its headquarters are in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania.
[Walla-Walla would do nicely for a west-coast mail-drop.
Readers who recall my 1 April 1996 excerpt from my Hyphenater's
Handbook (RISKS-17.95) may find this old item interesting. PGN]