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- From: mjenkins@alfred.carleton.ca (Michael Jenkinson)
- Subject: African-American-top
- Message-ID: <mjenkins.725757417@cunews>
- Sender: news@cunews.carleton.ca (News Administrator)
- Organization: Carleton University
- Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1992 23:16:57 GMT
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- Here's an UL...at least I've been told my everyone I tell my story to
- that its an UL (and I don't recall seeing it in the enormously-huge
- FAQ)
-
- My father told me about a colleague who was writing a book. The editor
- of the book was very PC and decided that the professor couldn't use
- the word "black" when referring to African-Americans. So the editor
- simply used a "search-and-replace" command to search for every "black"
- reference and replace it with "African-American."
-
- Unfortunately, this resulted in "blacktop" (as in asphalt) becoming
- "African-Americantop", a "black-and-white issue" becoming an
- "African-American-and-white issue", etc.
-
- Needless to say, the professor was rather upset.
-
- But as I say, every time I tell this story, people throw "UL" in my
- face. I admit it has a lot of UL tendencies....
-
- Anyone else heard this one before?
-
- Michael
-