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[Jonathan Lighter]

> I refuse to take this any more seriously than I take _N-bomb_ and _N-word_, both of which,
like _African-American_, are mere covers, non-distinct from _nigger_.

Surely you're not rejecting the practical semantic application of
foundational Whorf-Sapir determinism, which is so basic to the current
understanding of reality?


JL


On Sat, Jun 4, 2016 at 1:38 AM, Wilson Gray <hwgray at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 3, 2016 at 7:16 AM, Jonathan Lighter <wuxxmupp2000 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> You are the wry one, aren't you, Wilson?
>>
>> Such nonsense that forty years later, the news channels vastly
>> prefer "East Asian."
>>
>
> "Occident-centric"
>
> If a word is in the lexicon of a contemporary Indo-European language, how
> TF can it *NOT* be Occident-centric?! _East_ goes directly back to
> proto-Indo-European, _Asian_ is derived from Ancient Greek Ἀσία _Asia_ - of
> no certain origin, but it *is* known not to have an Asian <har! har!>
> etymology - and _Orient_ goes back to proto-IE through Latin.
>
> Am I missing something or am I simply an utter ignoramus? I refuse to take
> this any more seriously than I take _N-bomb_ and _N-word_, both of which,
> like _African-American_, are mere covers, non-distinct from _nigger_.
>
> I don't believe that the networks care about "Asian" one way or the other.
> They don't "prefer" it. It simply costs them nothing to use it. As long as
> it keeps the Orientals happy and spending their money.
> --
> -Wilson
> -----
> All say, "How hard it is that we have to die!"---a strange complaint to
> come from the mouths of people who have had to live.
> -Mark Twain
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