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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Thapelo,</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>My own thought is that a thorough dictionary can,
and perhaps should, include all derogatory information, but I think
lexicographers can have a positive social role and clearly mark such lexical
entries as rascist.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Wayne</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>-----<BR>Wayne Leman<BR>Cheyenne website: <A
href="http://www.geocities.com/cheyenne_language">http://www.geocities.com/cheyenne_language</A></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV>How would such derogatory information be represented in dictionaries?
"Its all Greek to me", may not be as offensive as "work like a Black" and I
would think that "work like a slave" would also be less offensive. And does a
lexicographer have a responsibility in challenging steretypes through
dictionary entries? Or his role should be better seen as that of a scientist
from without looking in as it were, merely describing the uses of
language that he sees. But does impartiality really exist in these
matters or one is either challenging the status quo or endorsing it (a
Terry Eagleton position in the later chapter of Literary Theory )? Put
differently, are certain entries like 'work like Black' racist when used
by racist communities and also racist when entered and discussed by
lexicographers? In this case the lexicographer guilty of participating in the
development and sustainance of racist views. On the other hand, would it be
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