¡Vamonos, Muchachxs!

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¡Vamonos, Muchachxs!

Postby brogine » Mon Apr 24, 2023 9:58 pm

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.

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Re: ¡Vamonos, Muchachxs!

Postby Slava » Thu Apr 27, 2023 5:25 am

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.
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Re: ¡Vamonos, Muchachxs!

Postby brogine » Thu Apr 27, 2023 10:41 pm

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

“Everybody’s a racist except me . . .
and I ain’t too sure about that motherfucker!”
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Re: ¡Vamonos, Muchachxs!

Postby Slava » Sat Apr 29, 2023 5:43 pm

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?
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Re: ¡Vamonos, Muchachxs!

Postby brogine » Sat Apr 29, 2023 5:56 pm

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


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