on nativity

Joel S. Berson Berson at ATT.NET
Fri Oct 22 01:05:01 UTC 2010


At 10/21/2010 06:11 PM, Jonathan Lighter wrote:
>The obvious solution, therefore, is to call them "natives" rather than
>natives.

Reminds me of the solution of calling Negroes "Negroes".

Joel

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