[Ads-l] _co-ed_: obsolete?
Dennis During
dcduring at GMAIL.COM
Fri Apr 20 22:40:07 UTC 2018
On Fri, Apr 20, 2018, 18:31 Peter Reitan <pjreitan at hotmail.com> wrote:
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> Now dated, but always ambiguous.
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In the world in which it was used it was not ambiguous. It's meaning
reflected the historical situation. Use now in that sense would probably be
considered microagression or worse.
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