[Ads-l] banana (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mark Mandel
markamandel at GMAIL.COM
Thu Oct 31 03:33:55 UTC 2019
As Lawrence said:
>More offensive for people than for inanimate objects.
MAM
On Wed, Oct 30, 2019, 8:04 PM Jonathan Lighter <wuxxmupp2000 at gmail.com>
wrote:
> How about "oriental rug"?
>
> Or is it saved by lower case?
>
> ISTR that "Oriental" was being condemned in the early '70s, when I was in
> college. It was around the time of "banana."
>
> In any case, Edward Said's _Orientalism_ (1978) was the biggest nail in the
> coffin and lexical re-orientation was de rigueur.
>
> For people with degrees anyhow.
>
>
>
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