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- From: cardo@oahu.cs.ucla.edu (Ric Crabbe)
- Subject: Re: African-American-top
- Message-ID: <1992Dec31.014052.21256@cs.ucla.edu>
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- Date: Thu, 31 Dec 92 01:40:52 GMT
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- mjenkins@alfred.carleton.ca (Michael Jenkinson) writes:
-
- >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.
- >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?
-
- not the same, but (slightly) related:
-
- My grandfather was an old guard english professor at Columbia and as such
- would get outraged at terms like African-American and chair-person of the
- board. He would periodically send me articles and essays on the matter. One
- I do remember was called 'Nopersonsclature'. It proceeded to make the standard
- arguments against 'ruining' the language, but everywhere substituted 'person'
- for man, African-American for black, and so on. Personual and
- African-Americantop were two particular ones I remember.
-
- what does it mean? nothing probably.
-
- ric
- cardo@cs.ucla.edu
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