"Monday" as racial slur

[Ben Zimmer]

On Thu, Jul 19, 2012 at 3:23 PM, Joel S. Berson wrote:
>
> At 7/19/2012 01:31 PM, Laurence Horn wrote:
>>I did a brief double-take on BZ's reference to "the disciplined
>>police officer".  Calling out a slur at a baseball player sounds
>>pretty undisciplined to me.
>
> How recent was the "disciplined" reference?  The police officer has
> been identified by name today (by noon if not earlier) and
> disciplined at least to the extent of being suspended with pay --
> which may not sound harsh, but there are civil service regulations
> governing.  There is to be a hearing rapidly, next week, after which
> he could conceivably be dismissed.  (It is reported that there are
> other incidents of his unbecoming behavior.)

Sorry, I misread today's press accounts. He is soon-to-be-disciplined.

--bgz

--
Ben Zimmer
http://benzimmer.com/

------------------------------------------------------------
The American Dialect Society - http://www.americandialect.org