word of the year?

[Michael Newman]

It's an us vs. them thing:

Good girls are legitimately raped and bad girls aren't. Something like that.


Michael Newman
Associate Professor of Linguistics
Queens College/CUNY
michael.newman at qc.cuny.edu



On Aug 20, 2012, at 3:43 PM, David Barnhart wrote:

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> What was going through the speaker's mind.  Legitimate rape!?!?
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> worst euphemism maybe?  legitimate rape:
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> http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/compost/post/legitimate-rape-and-todd-ak
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