plain speaking; sexist lg and more

[Lynne Murphy]

This topic was discussed at length on Salon, by the editor Joan Walsh a
couple of weeks ago:

<http://www.salon.com/opinion/feature/2007/03/31/sierra/index.html>

And has since been a running topic on her blog:

<http://www.salon.com/opinion/walsh/>

Lynne

--On Tuesday, April 10, 2007 3:04 pm -0400 "Joel S. Berson"
<Berson at ATT.NET> wrote:

> Apropos:  NYTimes, Monday April 9, page 1: "A Call for Manners in the
> World of Nasty Blogs:  High-Profile Figures Propose Guidelines for
> Web Civility".  (Not yet read.)
>
> Joel
>
> At 4/10/2007 02:37 PM, you wrote:
>> Victor Steinbok forwards this appalling story:
>>
>>   http://technology.guardian.co.uk/news/story/0,,2051580,00.html
>>
>> the Guardian is, as usual, fearless in quoting taboo vocabulary -- in
>> this case in a story about distressing sexism (including sexist
>> language) on the net.
>>
>> arnold
>>
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Dr M Lynne Murphy
Senior Lecturer and Head of Department
Linguistics and English Language
Arts B135
University of Sussex
Brighton BN1 9QN

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