Ethnic-based terms of contempt

[Laurence Horn]

At 8:44 PM -0600 2/26/09, Scot LaFaive wrote:
>  > P.S. Â Where did those =20's come from?
>
>I see them in Ron's emails a lot.
>
>Scot

Right, we get those =20's popping up from time to
time and have discussed them periodically as
well.  I was just surprised to see them popping
up in my own (quoted) posting below, because
that's something I haven't noticed recently.

LH

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>On 2/26/09, Mark Mandel <thnidu at gmail.com> wrote:
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>>  Poster:       Mark Mandel <thnidu at GMAIL.COM>
>>  Subject:      Re: Ethnic-based terms of contempt
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>>  On Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 7:49 PM, Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at yale.edu>
>>  wrote:
>>  > 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?
>>  ...
>>  [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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