refugee, IDP, evacuee

[Mark A. Mandel]

  sagehen <sagehen at WESTELCOM.COM> writes:
>>>
This looks like becoming a performance where you need a program to keep the
players straight.

1.Someone refers to people stranded by the storm or its aftermath and taken
to the Superdome as "refugees."
2.Someone among those thus referred to objects to being called a "refugee,"
on account of connotations the word has acquired from past events.
3.Someone else objects to the objection with the opinion that "refugee" is
the perfectly correct term for the person thus referred to.
4.Someone else starts to object to the objections being batted
around.............

I'M CONFUSED.
<<<

Or an East Village Democratic political meeting. Or sercon fandom.

I CALL THE QUESTION:
        "For God sakes, shut up and send us somebody."
        From The New York Times, 2005-09-05 (http://tinyurl.com/dedak)

(Not on our discussion here. On all that blah & counterblah.)

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