chair/ -man/ -woman

[Wilson Gray]

On Wed, Apr 18, 2012 at 11:16 AM, Hunter, Lynne R CIV
SPAWARSYSCEN-PACIFIC, 71700 <lynne.hunter at navy.mil> wrote:
> (I wonder if
> Blacks/African-Americans get tired of us white people fumbling around to
> get the terminology right.)

Indeed. I myself am a member of the FaceBook SIG, "Don't Call Me
'African-American'." I'm also in the SIG, "Word. The Online Journal on
African-American English," but its perpetrators are cool enough to
acknowledge that don't everybody be going for that "African-American"
mess.

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-Wilson
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All say, "How hard it is that we have to die!"---a strange complaint
to come from the mouths of people who have had to live.
-Mark Twain

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