Ethnic-based terms of contempt

[Scot LaFaive]

> P.S. Â Where did those =20's come from?

I see them in Ron's emails a lot.

Scot


On 2/26/09, Mark Mandel <thnidu at gmail.com> wrote:
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> On Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 7:49 PM, Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at yale.edu>
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> > At 6:28 PM -0500 2/26/09, Mark Mandel wrote:
> >>On Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 4:01 PM, Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at yale.edu>
> wrote:
> >>> Â At 3:42 PM -0500 2/26/09, Bill Palmer wrote:
> Â ...
> >>>>How many others are there? ? I'm wondering if=20
> >>>>this is uniquely American. ? Probably not, but=20
> >>>>are we more predisposed to it?
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> [Larry @ 4:01]]
> >>> Â Many many. ? I posted on this a few years back and=20
> >>> Â suggested calling them "ethnonyms".
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> [Mark @ 6:28 -- the "@" may look weird, but damn if I want that to look
> like a Gospel reference!]
> >>Except that "ethnonym" has a well-established use as "A proper name by
> >>which a people or ethnic group is known; spec. one which it calls
> >>itself." (OED) For the latter subsense I prefer "aut(o)ethnonym".
> ...
> [Larry @ 7:49]
> > For all I know, someone else called something else "ironym" too, but
> > I don't know for a fact that they did.
> >
> > LH
> >
> > P.S. Â Where did those =20's come from?
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> Our carrier-pigeon-based listserver, is my guess. That's how it showed
> up in my inbox.
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> m a m
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