Re: language discussion on the ethics of repeating, for illustration, prejorative terms

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From: Steve Shapiro (sgshiya@redshift.com)
Date: 08/23/02-11:04:40 PM Z


Let me check back with Prof. Jacqueline Tunberg, Dean of the English Dept.
at Cal State San Diego . . . oops, it's now UC San Diego and . . . she's
dead. Can't argue with the living, either.

Love ya' Judy.

S
----- Original Message -----
From: "Judy Seigel" <jseigel@panix.com>
To: <alt-photo-process-l@skyway.usask.ca>
Sent: Thursday, August 22, 2002 9:56 PM
Subject: Re: language discussion on the ethics of repeating, for
illustration, prejorative terms

>
>
> On Fri, 23 Aug 2002, Judy Seigel wrote:
>
> >
> > > in taking a stick from a packet of faggots and beating the bare
buttocks of
> > > one pretty little boy or another." Hense, the term for taking
pleasure of
> > > one little boy upon another was to call them a faggot.
>
>
> PS. I don't have a slang etymolygy handy, but I point out that the fagot
> meaning stick is spelled with one g, the slang term for homosexual with
> two. That suggests separate derivations.
>
> J.
>


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