slurs on the Polish

[Wilson Gray]

Well, yes. Unless the paper was on, say, the Polish-Lithuanian Empire.

-Wilson
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All say, "How hard it is that we have to die"---a strange complaint to
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On Mon, Mar 16, 2009 at 1:39 PM, Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at yale.edu> wrote:
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> At 1:20 PM -0400 3/16/09, Charles Doyle wrote:
>>I always wonder, when I write "Polish!" on a student essay, whether
>>I will be thought ethnically insensitive . . . .
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>>--Charlie
>>
> You could always write "LACKS POLISH!"
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> LH
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