LSSU Banished Words list, 2008

James Harbeck jharbeck at SYMPATICO.CA
Thu Jan 3 04:36:32 UTC 2008


>  Or maybe it's just religious terms that don't
>allow metaphor extension or generalization for these folks?

Or maybe just religious terms that came originally from nonreligious
words that were used to express pretty much what the unacceptable new
use signifies.

So many bonnets, so many bees...

James Harbeck.

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