[Ads-l] _racially-discriminate_ v.
Wilson Gray
hwgray at GMAIL.COM
Sun Nov 6 08:28:25 UTC 2016
On Sun, Nov 6, 2016 at 1:19 AM, Barretts Mail <mail.barretts at gmail.com>
wrote:
> Do you mean “race-discriminate”?
>
>From _discriminate by race_"? No. I would buy that, but the headline-writer
used unhyphenated "racially discriminate" and that also seems all right to
me, WRT this kind of construction.
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-Wilson
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All say, "How hard it is that we have to die!"---a strange complaint to
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