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- From: nigel@kathunk.phaedrav.on.ca (Nigel M Burnett)
- Subject: Re: African-American-top
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- References: <1992Dec31.014052.21256@cs.ucla.edu>
- Date: Fri, 1 Jan 1993 21:41:30 GMT
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- Ric Crabbe (cardo@oahu.cs.ucla.edu) wrote:
- : mjenkins@alfred.carleton.ca (Michael Jenkinson) writes:
- :
- : >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."
-
- Yup, seen it, and the retraction too. I think I was business travelling
- at the time and there's no way I'm gonna remember where. Anyway,
- "The xyx times/standard wish to apologize ... article in the business
- section regarding "companies getting back into the African-Amercican".
- This should have read "... back into the black"."
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- Nigel (I read so it must be true) Burnett
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