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- From: rawdon@cabrales.cs.wisc.edu (Michael Rawdon)
- Newsgroups: talk.bizarre,alt.sex,soc.culture.british
- Subject: Re: Homophobia
- Message-ID: <1992Jul29.024939.1109@spool.cs.wisc.edu>
- Date: 29 Jul 92 02:49:39 GMT
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- In <nsb9dqk@fido.asd.sgi.com> cj@eno.corp.sgi.com (C J Silverio) writes:
- >vh00+@andrew.cmu.edu (Vernon H Harmon) writes:
- >|Yeah, I've always had that problem too. I think the American media
- >|coined the term "homophobia" because of the tendency of some people to
- >|use the term "homo" to mean "homosexual" which just goes to show how
- >|stupid the media can be--and how ignorant: the term "homo" has a
- >|negative connotation and should not have been used in any "official"
- >|media term. [...]
-
- >I've always had a problem with hidebound straitjacketed thinkers,
- >who act as if language were regulated by some kind of LOGICAL
- >RIGID RULE SYSTEM.
-
- I hate irritating yo-yos who decide to set the Followup-To: line to misc.test
- without any warning. If you want to get this thread out of your precious
- little talk.bizarre then you can BLOODY WELL DO IT YOURSELF.
-
- > Living languages aren't, they haven't ever,
- >and they won't. Usage is language is usage.
-
- >Most people aren't anal computer weenies,
-
- Just you, right?
-
- > and they manage to
- >understand and use the word "homophobia" with no difficulty.
- >The coinage seems completely obvious given the English speaker's
- >tendency to rip off word prefixes and paste them onto known
- >suffixes. (Take "*-gate", where the original is "Watergate".)
-
- Take Berke Breathed's cartoons, which pointed out how patently stupid this
- idea was.
-
- >So you lose. The English language continues to grow despite you.
-
- Oh, good. This means I can go back to using "he" and "man" and "mankind"
- in a generic sense, right? After all, it's an indication that "the language
- is growing".
-
- Maybe in a few years we can look forward to the word "ratchet" having 57
- different meanings, as noun, verb, adjective, adverb and pronoun.
-
- Either that or we can enjoy "antidisestablishmentarianism" being one of the
- shorter words in the language.
-
- This is growth? So is cancer.
-
- >Unless you have something clever & bizarre to say, which you can
- >couch in neologisms, please keep your followups out of talk.bizarre.
- >Thank you for your support.
-
- Fuck. You.
-
- --
- Michael Rawdon
- rawdon@cabrales.cs.wisc.edu
- University of Wisconsin Computer Sciences Department, Madison, WI
-
- "I don't want to be a messiah, messiahs die young."
- - Men Without Hats
-