www.alphadictionary.com

Stanford is the latest institution to let us know how to speak.

https://s.wsj.net/public/resources/docu ... .pdf#page4

Some of the entries are hilarious. And, you betcha!, as a whole the thing is gold for the GQP.

One that gets me is the suggestion of replacing landlord/lady with property owner. This is just wrong. Not all property owners are landlords/ladies. Property owner erases the status of the Lord or Lady of the property, and ignores the rent-taking aspect of such. There are many decent property owners. Not so many of the other.

How ’bout ‘seminal’? ‘Webmaster’? ‘Brown bag’?

“Everybody’s a racist except me . . .
and I ain’t too sure about that motherfucker!”

Yes, seminal ticked me off, too.

Another big one, one that's just plain wrong to me, is ghetto. They ignore its roots completely. That explains seminal, too, I guess, so I shouldn't be surprised.

I'd also like to learn more about the African-American/Black divide. I started life with Black being the term, then there was great debate over various forms of combining African and American, with Afro-American being one of the top contenders. Now we're supposed to go back to Black? Who's making these decisions?

When I was young, ‘black’ was a vile word . . . like ‘queer’!