Ameliorated words of offensive origin

Tue Feb 27 12:55:44 UTC 2001

At 6:46 PM -0500 2/27/01, Duane Campbell wrote:
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>On Tue, 27 Feb 2001 17:51:17 +0800 Laurence Horn
><<mailto:laurence.horn at YALE.EDU>laurence.horn at YALE.EDU> writes:
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>  > a kind of linguistic version of Gresham's Law
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>OOoooo, that's GOOD!  May I use it?  Without attribution?
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feel free; I've been using that line in connection with taboo
avoidance in class for so long I can't even remember if I invented it
or borrowed it from someone else.

larry
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